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The M5-brane action revisited

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We construct an alternative form of the M5-brane action in which the sixdimensional worldvolume is subject to a covariant split into 3+3 directions by a triplet of auxiliary fields. We consider the relation of this action to the original form of the M5-brane action and to a Nambu-Poisson 5-brane action based on the Bagger-Lambert-Gustavsson model with the gauge symmetry of volume preserving diffeomorphisms.

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Ko, SL., Sorokin, D. & Vanichchapongjaroen, P. The M5-brane action revisited. J. High Energ. Phys. 2013, 72 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP11(2013)072

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