Kähler potential and higher derivative terms from M-theory fivebrane
- Creators
- de Boer, Jan
- Hori, Kentaro
- Ooguri, Hirosi
- Oz, Yaron
Abstract
The construction of four-dimensional supersymmetric gauge theories via the fivebrane of M-theory wrapped around a Riemann surface has been successfully applied to the computation of holomorphic quantities of field theory. In this paper we compute non-holomorphic quantities in the eleven-dimensional supergravity limit of M-theory. While the Kähler potential on the Coulomb of N = 2 theories is correctly reproduced, higher derivative terms in the N = 2 effective action differ from what is expected for the four-dimensional gauge theory. For the Kähler potential of N = 1 theories at an abelian Coulomb phase, the result again differs from what is expected for the four-dimensional gauge theory. Using a gravitational back-reaction method for the fivebrane we compute the metric on the Higgs branch of N = 2 gauge theories. Here we find an agreement with the results expected for the gauge theories. A similar computation of the metric on N = 1 Higgs branches yields information on the complex structure associated with the flavor rotation in one case and the classical metric in another. We discuss what four-dimensional field theory quantities can be computed via the fivebrane in the supergravity limit of M-theory.
Additional Information
© 1998 Elsevier. Received 12 January 1998, Accepted 9 February 1998. We would like to thank G. Horowitz, J. Maldacena, H. Murayama and C. Vafa for useful discussions. This research is supported in part by NSF grant PHY-95-14797 and DOE grant DE-AC03-76SF00098. JdB is a fellow of the Miller Institute for Basic Research in Science.Attached Files
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- 72989
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- CaltechAUTHORS:20161220-125221606
- PHY-95-14797
- NSF
- DE-AC03-76SF00098
- Department of Energy (DOE)
- Miller Institute for Basic Research in Science
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