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• CommentRowNumber1.
• CommentAuthorUrs
• CommentTimeAug 27th 2013
• (edited Aug 27th 2013)

I am trying to give more of the entries of the brane scan in low ambient dimension their proper names.

Next to the little string in $D = 6$ the brane scan says that there is a Green-Schwarz action functional for a 3-brane $\sigma$-model in $D = 6$. This has been first written down in

• James Hughes, Jun Liu, Joseph Polchinski, Supermembranes, Physics Letters B Volume 180, Issue 4, 20 November 1986, Pages 370–374

but it seems to go by no specific name apart from “the 3-brane in 6d”. So I created a stub entry with that title, 3-brane in 6d.

• CommentRowNumber2.
• CommentAuthorUrs
• CommentTimeSep 2nd 2013

added more references to 3-brane in 6d on how it appears inside the M5

• CommentRowNumber3.
• CommentAuthorUrs
• CommentTimeMar 23rd 2020

added these pointers on the relation to D=4 N=2 super Yang-Mills theory:

• CommentRowNumber4.
• CommentAuthorUrs
• CommentTimeMar 24th 2020