The ABJM Model is a higher gauge theory

Sam Arnold Palmer; Christian Saemann

doi:10.1142/S0219887814500753

The ABJM Model is a higher gauge theory

Sam Arnold Palmer, Christian Saemann

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Abstract

M2-branes couple to a 3-form potential, which suggests that their description involves a non-abelian 2-gerbe or, equivalently, a principal 3-bundle. We show that current M2-brane models fit this expectation: they can be reformulated as higher gauge theories on such categorified bundles. We thus add to the still very sparse list of physically interesting higher gauge theories.

Original language	English
Article number	1450075
Journal	International Journal of Geometric Methods in Modern Physics
Volume	11
Issue number	8
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1142/S0219887814500753
Publication status	Published - 11 Jul 2014

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