Journal of High Energy Physics (Apr 2021)

F-theory with worldvolume sectioning

  • William D. Linch,
  • Warren Siegel

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP04(2021)022
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 2021, no. 4
pp. 1 – 15

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Abstract We describe the worldvolume for the bosonic sector of the lower-dimensional F-theory that embeds 5D, N=1 M-theory and the 4D type II superstring. This theory is a complexification of the fundamental 5-brane theory that embeds the 4D, N=1 M-theory of the 3D type II string in a sense that we make explicit at the level of the Lagrangian and Hamiltonian formulations. We find three types of section condition: in spacetime, on the worldvolume, and one tying them together. The 5-brane theory is recovered from the new theory by a double dimensional reduction.

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