The Nambu bracket and M-theory

DOI10.1093/PTEP/PTW075zbMATH Open1361.81120arXiv1603.09534OpenAlexW2471410627MaRDI QIDQ5347158FDOQ5347158

Pei-Ming Ho, Yutaka Matsuo

Publication date: 22 May 2017

Published in: PTEP. Progress of Theoretical and Experimental Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Nambu proposed an extension of dynamical system through the introduction of a new bracket (Nambu bracket) in 1973. This article is a short review of the developments after his paper. Some emphasis are put on a viewpoint that the Nambu bracket naturally describes extended objects which appear in M-theory and the fluid dynamics. The latter part of the paper is devoted to a review of the studies on the Nambu bracket (Lie 3-algebra) in Bagger-Lambert-Gustavsson theory of multiple M2-branes. This paper is a contribution to the proceedings of Nambu memorial symposium (Osaka City University, September 29, 2015).

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1603.09534

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Ternary compositions (17A40) Finite-dimensional groups and algebras motivated by physics and their representations (81R05) 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)

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• Classical Nambu brackets in higher dimensions
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