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M5-brane instanton
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Context
String theory
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Critical string models
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Topological strings
Backgrounds
Phenomenology
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Idea
M5-brane instantons are constituted by M5-branes wrapped on spacelike cycles.
Table of branes appearing in supergravity/string theory (for classification see at brane scan).
brane | in supergravity | charged under gauge field | has worldvolume theory |
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black brane | supergravity | higher gauge field | SCFT |
D-brane | type II | RR-field | super Yang-Mills theory |
| type IIA | | |
D(-2)-brane | | | |
D0-brane | | | BFSS matrix model |
D2-brane | | | |
D4-brane | | | D=5 super Yang-Mills theory with Khovanov homology observables |
D6-brane | | | D=7 super Yang-Mills theory |
D8-brane | | | |
| type IIB | | |
D(-1)-brane | | | |
D1-brane | | | 2d CFT with BH entropy |
D3-brane | | | N=4 D=4 super Yang-Mills theory |
D5-brane | | | |
D7-brane | | | |
D9-brane | | | |
(p,q)-string | | | |
(D25-brane) | (bosonic string theory) | | |
NS-brane | type I, II, heterotic | circle n-connection | |
string | | B2-field | 2d SCFT |
NS5-brane | | B6-field | little string theory |
D-brane for topological string | | | |
A-brane | | | |
B-brane | | | |
M-brane | 11D SuGra/M-theory | circle n-connection | |
M2-brane | | C3-field | ABJM theory, BLG model |
M5-brane | | C6-field | 6d (2,0)-superconformal QFT |
M9-brane/O9-plane | | | heterotic string theory |
M-wave | | | |
topological M2-brane | topological M-theory | C3-field on G₂-manifold | |
topological M5-brane | | C6-field on G₂-manifold | |
S-brane | | | |
SM2-brane, membrane instanton | | | |
M5-brane instanton | | | |
D3-brane instanton | | | |
solitons on M5-brane | 6d (2,0)-superconformal QFT | | |
self-dual string | | self-dual B-field | |
3-brane in 6d | | | |
References
M5-brane instantons wrapping entire Calabi-Yau manifold fibers are discussed in
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