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We study M5-branes wrapped on a multi-centred Taub-NUT space. Reducing to String Theory on the S1 fibration leads to D4-branes intersecting with D6-branes. D-braneology shows that there are additional charged chiral fermions from the open strings which stretch between the D4-branes and D6-branes. From the M-theory point of view the appearance of these charged states is mysterious as the M5-branes are wrapped on a smooth manifold. In this paper we show how these states arise in the M5-brane worldvolume theory and argue that are governed by a WZWN-like model where the topological term is five-dimensional.
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Lambert, N., Owen, M. Charged chiral fermions from M5-branes. J. High Energ. Phys. 2018, 51 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP04(2018)051
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