Boundary string current & Weyl anomaly in six-dimensional conformal field theory

Chong-Sun Chu (Physics Division, National Center for Theoretical Sciences, National Tsing-Hua University, Hsinchu, 30013, Taiwan; Department of Physics, National Tsing-Hua University, Hsinchu, 30013, Taiwan) ; Rong-Xin Miao (School of Physics and Astronomy, Sun Yat-Sen University, Zhuhai, 519082, China)

It was recently discovered that for a boundary system in the presence of a background magnetic field, the quantum fluctuation of the vacuum would create a non-uniform magnetization density for the vacuum and a magnetization current is induced in the vacuum [1]. It was also shown that this “magnetic Casimir effect” of the vacuum is closely related to another quantum effect of the vacuum, the Weyl anomaly. Furthermore, the phenomena can be understood in terms of the holography of the boundary system [2]. In this paper, we generalize this four dimensional effect to six dimensions. We use the AdS/BCFT holography to show that in the presence of a 3-form magnetic field strength H, a string current is induced in a six dimensional boundary conformal field theory. This allows us to determine the gauge field contribution to the Weyl anomaly in six dimensional conformal field theory in a H-flux background. For the (2,0) superconformal field theory of N M5-branes, the current has a magnitude proportional to N 3 for large N. This suggests that the degree of freedoms scales as N 3 in the (2,0) superconformal theory of N multiple M5-branes. The prediction we have for the Weyl anomaly is a new criteria that the (2,0) theory should satisfy.

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Published on:
13 December 2019
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Springer
Published in:
Journal of High Energy Physics , Volume 2019 (2019)
Issue 7
Pages 1-18
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP07(2019)151
arXiv:
1812.10273
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