nLab supersymmetric cycle

Idea

… calibrated submanifolds with deformed Yang-Mills bundles over them…

Related concepts

• associative submanifold

• wrapped brane, membrane instanton

References

General

• Marcos Marino, Ruben Minasian, Gregory Moore, Andrew Strominger, Nonlinear Instantons from supersymmetric $p$-Branes, J. High Energy Phys. 2000, no. 1, Paper 5 (arXiv:hep-th/9911206)

• Jae-Hyouk Lee, Naichung Conan Leung, Geometric structures on $G_2$ and $Spin(7)$-manifolds (arXiv:math/0202045)

M5-Branes wrapped on supersymemtric cycles

On D=11 N=1 supergravity solutions for the near horizon geometry of black M5-branes wrapped on supersymmetric cycles:

• Jerome Gauntlett, Nakwoo Kim, Daniel Waldram, M-Fivebranes Wrapped on Supersymmetric Cycles, Phys. Rev. D63 (2001) 126001 (arXiv:hep-th/0012195)

See also at 3d-3d correspondence.