On instantons as Kaluza-Klein modes of M5-branes

HC Kim, S Kim, E Koh, K Lee, S Lee - Journal of High Energy Physics, 2011 - Springer
A bstract Instantons and W-bosons in 5d maximally supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory arise
from a circle compactification of the 6d (2, 0) theory as Kaluza-Klein modes and winding self …

6d, Coulomb branch anomaly matching

K Intriligator - Journal of High Energy Physics, 2014 - Springer
A bstract 6d QFTs are constrained by the analog of't Hooft anomaly matching: all anomalies
for global symmetries and metric backgrounds are constants of RG flows, and for all vacua in …

On S-duality of 5d super Yang-Mills on S 1

Y Tachikawa - Journal of High Energy Physics, 2011 - Springer
A bstract We study a duality of 5d maximally supersymmetric Yang-Mills on S 1, which
exchanges the tower of Kaluza-Klein W-bosons and the tower of instantonic monopoles …

The general M5-brane superconformal index

HC Kim, S Kim, SS Kim, K Lee - arxiv preprint arxiv:1307.7660, 2013 - arxiv.org
We calculate and study the general superconformal index for the 6d U (N)(2, 0) theory with
four chemical potentials, from the indices of gauge theories on CP^ 2 x R. Our index agrees …

Cardy limits of 6d superconformal theories

K Lee, J Nahmgoong - Journal of High Energy Physics, 2021 - Springer
A bstract We explore the supersymmetric partition functions of 6d SCFTs on ℝ 4× T 2 with
non-vanishing charges for compatible global symmetries. We utilize the elliptic genera for …

Non-abelian action for multiple five-branes with self-dual tensors

CS Chu, SL Ko - Journal of High Energy Physics, 2012 - Springer
A bstract We construct an action for non-abelian 2-form in 6-dimensions. Our action consists
of a non-abelian generalization of the abelian action of Perry and Schwarz for a single five …

The conformal anomaly of M5-branes

T Maxfield, S Sethi - Journal of High Energy Physics, 2012 - Springer
A bstract We show that the conformal anomaly for NM 5-branes grows like N 3. The method
we employ relates Coulomb branch interactions in six dimensions to interactions in four …

Supersymmetric M5 brane theories on R× CP2

HC Kim, K Lee - Journal of High Energy Physics, 2013 - Springer
A bstract We propose 4 and 12 supersymmetric conformal Yang-Mills-Chern-Simons
theories on R× CP 2 as multiple representations of the theory on M5 branes. These theories …

Higher laminations, webs and N= 2 line operators

D **e - arxiv preprint arxiv:1304.2390, 2013 - arxiv.org
A detailed study of half-BPS line operators of higher rank 4d N= 2 theory engineered from
six dimensional A_ {N-1}(2, 0) theory on a bordered Riemann surface with full marked points …

Non-Abelian tensor towers and (2, 0) superconformal theories

F Bonetti, TW Grimm, S Hohenegger - Journal of High Energy Physics, 2013 - Springer
A bstract With the aim to study six-dimensional (2, 0) superconformal theories with non-
Abelian tensor multiplets we propose a five-dimensional superconformal action with eight …