Deformation of half-BPS solution in ABJM model and instability of supermembrane

DOI10.1007/JHEP05(2011)011zbMATH Open1296.81106arXiv1102.3277MaRDI QIDQ457517FDOQ457517

Authors: Tsunehide Kuroki, Akitsugu Miwa, Satoshi Okuda 

Publication date: 26 September 2014

Published in: Journal of High Energy Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: It is well-known that a supermembrane in the light-cone gauge has a continuous spectrum and is unstable. Physical interpretation of this instability is that a supermembrane can have a long thin tube without cost of energy and consequently it becomes a spiky configuration in which multiple membranes are connected by thin tubes. On the other hand, the ABJM model was proposed as a low-energy description of multiple M2-branes in the static gauge. It is natural that an M2-brane is also unstable in this gauge if we believe the physical picture in the light-cone gauge. In order to examine this, we construct a BPS solution explicitly both in the Nambu-Goto action of a supermembrane in the static gauge and in the U(1){ imes}U(1) ABJM model, which represents intersecting M2-branes. Since this configuration is regarded as a single M2-brane emitting another one, we study the instability of an M2-brane by analyzing fluctuations around it. We show that a zero mode exists which can deform the configuration. For comparison, we also examine a similar configuration on the D2-brane and check that it does not have such zero modes under a fixed string charge. Furthermore we confirm that the novel Higgs mechanism translates our BPS solution in the ABJM model into that in the D2-brane world volume theory, where the winding number of the former around the fixed point of the orbifold becomes the number of strings ending on the D2-brane in the latter.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1102.3277

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zbMATH Keywords

M-theorybrane dynamics in gauge theories

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in quantum field theory (81T13) String and superstring theories; other extended objects (e.g., branes) in quantum field theory (81T30) Unified quantum theories (81V22)

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