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Trirefringence and the M5-brane

Igor Bandos
(
- Basque U., Bilbao and
- IKERBASQUE, Bilbao
)
,
Kurt Lechner
(
- Padua U.
)
,
Dmitri Sorokin
(
- Padua U.
)
,
Paul K. Townsend
(
- Cambridge U., DAMTP
)

Mar 20, 2023

14 pages

Published in:

JHEP 06 (2023) 171

Published: Jun 26, 2023

e-Print:

2303.11485 [hep-th]

DOI:

10.1007/JHEP06(2023)171

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Abstract: (Springer)

The Hamiltonian formulation for nonlinear chiral 2-form electrodynamics in six-dimensional Minkowski spacetime is used to show that small-amplitude plane-wave perturbations of a generic uniform constant ‘magnetic’ background exhibit trirefringence: all three independent wave-polarisations have distinct dispersion relations. While two coincide for Lorentz invariant theories, all three coincide uniquely for the chiral 2-form theory on the worldvolume of the M5-brane of M-theory. We argue that this is because, in this M-theory context, the waves propagate in a planar M5-M2-M2 bound-state preserving 16 supersymmetries. We also show how our results imply analogous results for nonlinear electrodynamics in a Minkowski spacetime of five and four dimensions.

Note:

14 pages, v4 includes minor clarifications to v3

Field Theories in Higher Dimensions
Brane Dynamics in Gauge Theories
M-Theory
space-time: Minkowski
dimension: 6
invariance: Lorentz
M-theory
nonlinear
chiral
dispersion relation

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