Deconstructing (2,0) proposals

We examine the relationships between three proposals for the six-dimensional (2,0) theory: the discrete light-cone quantization (DLCQ) of Aharony et al. [Adv. Theor. Math. Phys. 1, 148 (1998); Adv. Theor. Math. Phys. 2, 119 (1998)], the deconstruction prescription of Arkani-Hamed et al. [J. High Energy Phys. 01 (2003) 083], and the five-dimensional maximally supersymmetric Yang-Mills proposal of Douglas and Lambert et al. [J. High Energy Phys. 02 (2011) 011; J. High Energy Phys. 01 (2011) 083]. We show that Arkani-Hamed et al. gives a deconstruction of five-dimensional maximally supersymmetric Yang-Mills. The proposal of Aharony et al. uses a subset of the degrees of freedom of five-dimensional Yang-Mills, and we show that compactification of it on a circle of finite radius agrees with the DLCQ arising from the proposal of Douglas and Lambert et al. or from the deconstruction proposal of Arkani-Hamed et al.