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We consider the maximal super-Yang-Mills theory in 5 Euclidean dimensions with SO(5) R-symmetry and 16 supersymmetries. We argue that the strong coupling limit of this theory (with a possible UV completion) has an emergent time dimension and gives a description of the 5+1 dimensional Lorentz invariant (2, 0) theory of the M5-brane, compactified on a timelike circle with radius R = g 2/4π 2. Our discussion involves issues of quantization of Euclidean theories without time.
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Hull, C.M., Lambert, N. Emergent time and the M5-brane. J. High Energ. Phys. 2014, 16 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP06(2014)016
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