A non-abelian self-dual gauge theory in 5+1 dimensions

作者:Ho Pei Ming*; Huang Kuo Wei; Matsuo Yutaka
来源:The Journal of High Energy Physics, 2011, 2011(7): 021.
DOI:10.1007/JHEP07(2011)021

摘要

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.

  • 出版日期2011-7