Mock modular index of M2-M5 brane systems

作者:Okazaki Tadashi; Smith Douglas J
来源:PHYSICAL REVIEW D, 2017, 96(2): 026017.
DOI:10.1103/PhysRevD.96.026017

摘要

We present Bogomolny-Prasad-Sommerfield (BPS) indices of the supergroup Wess-Zumino-Witten (WZW) models that live on intersecting M2-M5-brane systems. They can encode data of the stretched M2-branes between M5-branes and count the BPS states. They are generally expressed in terms of mock theta functions via the Kac-Wakimoto character formula of the affine Lie superalgebra. We give an explicit expression of the index for the PSL(2/2)(k=1) WZW model in terms of the second-order multivariable Appell-Lerch sum. It indicates that wall crossing occurs in the BPS state counting due to the C field on theM5-branes.

  • 出版日期2017-7-21

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