M-theory as a matrix extension of Chern-Simons theory

DOI10.1016/S0550-3213(00)00564-2zbMath0971.81111arXivhep-th/0002009MaRDI QIDQ5933312

Lee Smolin

Publication date: 14 May 2001

Published in: Nuclear Physics. B (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0002009

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in quantum field theory (81T13) Applications of Lie (super)algebras to physics, etc. (17B81) String and superstring theories; other extended objects (e.g., branes) in quantum field theory (81T30) Finite-dimensional groups and algebras motivated by physics and their representations (81R05)

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