Boundaries of 11-Dimensional Membranes

DOI10.1142/S0217732397002776MaRDI QIDQ4212092zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors M. Cederwall

Publication date 25 October 1998

Published in Modern Physics Letters A (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9704161

zbMATH Keywords

\(E_8\) super-Yang-Mills theory11-dimensional supermembranechiral Wess-Zumino-Witten model

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of differential geometry to physics (53Z05) String and superstring theories; other extended objects (e.g., branes) in quantum field theory (81T30)

Abstract: The action for an 11-dimensional supermembrane contains a chiral Wess-Zumino-Witten model coupling to the E8 super-Yang-Mills theory on the end-of-the-world 9-brane. It is demonstrated that this boundary string theory is dictated both by gauge invariance and by kappa-symmetry.

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• Non-Abelian bosonization in two dimensions
• String theory dynamics in various dimensions
• Supergravity in theory in 11 dimensions
• Supermembranes and eleven-dimensional supergravity

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• Nonperturbative superpotentials from membrane instantons in heterotic M-theory
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