Holographic M-Brane Super-Embeddings

TL;DR

This paper constructs explicit holographic super-embeddings of probe M5- and M2-branes into super-AdS backgrounds, providing a concrete realization of the super-embedding approach for M-branes.

Contribution

It offers the first explicit examples of super-embeddings for M5- and M2-branes in holographic settings, advancing the understanding of probe brane configurations.

Findings

Explicit super-embeddings of M5-branes into super-AdS backgrounds.

Explicit super-embeddings of M2-branes into super-AdS backgrounds.

Provides a concrete realization of super-embedding for M-branes.

Abstract

Over a decade before the modern formulation of AdS/CFT duality, Duff et al. had observed a candidate microscopic explanation by identifying the CFT fields with fluctuations of probe p-branes stretched out in parallel near the horizon of their own black brane incarnation. A profound way to characterize these and more general probe p-brane configurations, especially for M5-branes, is expected to be as "super-embeddings" of their super-worldvolumes into target super-spacetime - but no concrete example of these had appeared in the literature. Here we fill this gap by constructing the explicit holographic super-embeddings of probe M5-branes and M2-branes into their corresponding super-AdS backgrounds.