Solutions of four-dimensional field theories via M-theory

Mar, 1997
40 pages
Published in:
  • Nucl.Phys.B 500 (1997) 3-42
  • Published: Apr 21, 2014
e-Print:
Report number:
  • IASSNS-HEP-97-19

Citations per year

19962003201020172024020406080100120
Abstract: (CRC Press)
N = 2 supersymmetric gauge theories in four dimensions are studied by formulating them as the quantum field theories derived from configurations of fourbranes, fivebranes, and sixbranes in Type IIA superstrings, and then reinterpreting those configurations in M-theory. This approach leads to explicit solutions for the Coulomb branch of a large family of four-dimensional N = 2 field theories with zero or negative beta function. © 1997 Elsevier Science B.V.
Note:
  • 43 pp., harvmac
  • gauge field theory: Yang-Mills
  • membrane model: p-brane
  • p-brane: 4
  • p-brane: 5
  • p-brane: 6
  • field theory: M-theory
  • supersymmetry
  • field equations: solution
  • fibre bundle
  • geometry: algebra