Tuesday, June 26, 2012

1206.5643 (Pei-Ming Ho et al.)

Note on non-Abelian two-form gauge fields    [PDF]

Pei-Ming Ho, Yutaka Matsuo
Motivated by application to multiple M5 branes, we study some properties of non-Abelian two-form gauge theories. We note that the fake curvature condition which is commonly used in the literature would restrict the dynamics to be either a free theory or a topological system. We then propose a modification of transformation law which simplifies the gauge transformation of 3-form field strength and enables us to write down a gauge invariant action. We then argue that a generalization of Stueckelberg mechanism naturally gives mass to the two-form gauge field. For the application to multiple M5-branes, it should be identified with the KK modes.
View original: http://arxiv.org/abs/1206.5643

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