abelian gauge invariance of the wz-type coupling in abjm theory：阿贝尔规范不变性abjm理论wz型耦合.pdf

Physics Letters B 748 (2015) 380–386 Contents lists available at ScienceDirect Physics Letters B /locate/physletb Abelian gauge invariance of the WZ-type coupling in ABJM theory Dongmin Jang a , Yoonbai Kim a , O-Kab Kwon b,c,∗, D.D. Tolla d a Department of Physics, BK21 Physics Research Division, Institute of Basic Science, Sungkyunkwan University, Suwon 440-746, Republic of Korea b Department of Physics, Kyungpook National University, Taegu 702-701, Republic of Korea c Department of Physics, Ewha Womans University, Seoul 120-750, Republic of Korea d International School for Advanced Studies (SISSA), Via Bonomea 265, 34136 Trieste, Italy a r t i c l e i n f o a b s t r a c t Article history: We construct the interaction terms between the worldvolume fields of multiple M2-branes and 3-form Received 9 June 2015 gauge field of 11-dimensional supergravity, in the context of ABJM theory. The obtained Wess–Zumino- Received in revised form 8 July 2015 type coupling is simultaneously invariant under the UL (N ) × UR (N ) non-Abelian gauge transformation of Accepted 13 July 2015 the ABJM theory and the Abelian gauge transformation of the 3-form field in 11-dimensional supergravity. Available online 17 July 2015 Editor: N. Lambert © 2015 The Authors. Published by Elsevier B.V. This is an open access article under the CC BY license