A Non-Abelian Self-Dual Gauge Theory in 5+1 Dimensions
Journal
JHEP
Journal Volume
07
Pages
021
Date Issued
2011-04
Author(s)
Abstract
We construct a non-Abelian gauge theory of chiral 2-forms (self-dual gauge fields) in 6 dimensions with a spatial direction compactified on a circle of radius R. It has the following two properties. (1) It reduces to the Yang-Mills theory in 5 dimensions for small R. (2) It is equivalent to the Lorentz-invariant theory of Abelian chiral 2-forms when the gauge group is Abelian. Previous no-go theorems prohibiting non-Abelian deformations of the chiral 2-form gauge theory are circumvented by introducing nonlocality along the compactified dimension. © SISSA 2011.
Subjects
Duality in gauge field theories; Gauge symmetry; M-Theory; P-branes
Type
journal article