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3d Chern-Simons Theory from M5-branes

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Journal of High Energy Physics, (Jul 1, 2014)
DOI: 10.1007/jhep12(2013)035

Abstract

We study 5d N=2 maximally supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory with a gauge group G on S^2 x M\_3, where M\_3 is a 3-manifold. By explicit localization computation we show that the path-integral of the 5d N=2 theory reduces to that of the 3d G\_C Chern-Simons theory on M\_3, where G\_C is the complexification of G. This gives a direct derivation of the appearance of the Chern-Simons theory from the compactification of the 6d (2,0) theory, confirms the predictions from the 3d/3d correspondence for G=SU(N), and suggests the generalization of the correspondence to more general gauge groups.

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