Towards an M5-Brane Model I: A 6d Superconformal Field Theory

Understand

We present an action for a six-dimensional superconformal field theory containing a non-abelian tensor multiplet.

• All of the ingredients of this action have been available in the literature.
• We bring these pieces together by choosing the string Lie 2-algebra as a gauge structure, which we motivated in previous work.
• The kinematical data contains a connection on a categorified principal bundle, which is the appropriate mathematical description of the parallel transport of self-dual strings.