# M-Strings

@article{Haghighat2013MStrings,
title={M-Strings},
author={Babak Haghighat and Amer Iqbal and Can Kozçaz and Guglielmo Lockhart and Cumrun Vafa},
journal={Communications in Mathematical Physics},
year={2013},
volume={334},
pages={779-842}
}
• Published 27 May 2013
• Mathematics
• Communications in Mathematical Physics
M2 branes suspended between adjacent parallel M5 branes lead to light strings, the ‘M-strings’. In this paper we compute the elliptic genus of M-strings, twisted by maximally allowed symmetries that preserve 2d (2, 0) supersymmetry. In a codimension one subspace of parameters this reduces to the elliptic genus of the (4, 4) supersymmetric An-1 quiver theory in 2d. We contrast the elliptic genus of N M-strings with the (4, 4) sigma model on the N-fold symmetric product of $${{\mathbb{R}}^4}$$R4…
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