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381. M2 branes and Chern-Simons theories

John Davey John Davey is a PhD student of Amihay Hanany at Physics Department of Imperial College, London. Dmitry.

Recently Chern-Simons theories have attracted much attention as they are thought to describe the world volume theory of the elusive M2 brane. In this short article I will attempt to outline some of the recent developments in this field and describe how brane tilings can be used to find and investigate a large class of these theories.

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