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Complex Chern-Simons from M5-branes on the Squashed Three-Sphere

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arxiv 1305.2891 v1 pith:GSLX2IK2 submitted 2013-05-13 hep-th

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keywords chern-simonscomplexgaugesquashedtheorythree-sphereactioncontrols
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We derive an equivalence between the (2,0) superconformal M5-brane field theory dimensionally reduced on a squashed three-sphere, and Chern-Simons theory with complex gauge group. In the reduction, the massless fermions obtain an action which is second order in derivatives and are reinterpreted as ghosts for gauge fixing the emergent non-compact gauge symmetry. A squashing parameter in the geometry controls the imaginary part of the complex Chern-Simons level.

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