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A Q-exact off-shell action is constructed for twisted abelian (2,0) theory on a Lorentzian six-manifold of the form M 1,5 = C × M 4, where C is a flat two-manifold and M 4 is a general Euclidean four-manifold. The properties of this formulation, which is obtained by introducing two auxiliary fields, can be summarised by a commutative diagram where the Lagrangian and its stress-tensor arise from the Q-variation of two fermionic quantities V and λ μν. This completes and extends the analysis in [1].
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Gran, U., Linander, H. & Nilsson, B.E.W. Off-shell structure of twisted (2,0) theory. J. High Energ. Phys. 2014, 32 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP11(2014)032
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