Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Theory
Scientific paper
2000-06-29
Phys.Rev.Lett. 85 (2000) 5280
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Theory
8 pages. More pedagogical presentation, added section on relationship to d = 4 Yang-Mills theory
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevLett.85.5280
We describe a class of six-dimensional conformal field theories that have some properties in common with and possibly are related to a subsector of the tensionless string theories. The latter theories can for example give rise to four-dimensional $N = 4$ superconformal Yang-Mills theories upon compactification on a two-torus. Just like the tensionless string theories, our theories have an $ADE$-classification, but no other discrete or continuous parameters. The Hilbert space carries an irreducible representation of the same Heisenberg group that appears in the tensionless string theories, and the `Wilson surface' observables obey the same superselection rules. When compactified on a two-torus, they have the same behaviour under $S$-duality as super Yang-Mills theory. Our theories are natural generalizations of the two-form with self-dual field strength that is part of the world-volume theory of a single five-brane in $M$-theory, and the $A_{N - 1}$ theory can in fact be seen as arising from $N$ non-interacting chiral two-forms by factoring out the collective `center of mass' degrees of freedom.
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