Supermembrane dynamics from multiple interacting strings

DOI10.1016/S0550-3213(97)80032-6zbMATH Open1004.83537arXivhep-th/9610018OpenAlexW1990003127MaRDI QIDQ678296FDOQ678296

Authors: J. G. Russo 

Publication date: 16 April 1997

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

Abstract: The supermembrane theory on $R^{10}x{S}^1$ is investigated, for membranes that wrap once around the compact dimension. The Hamiltonian can be organized as describing $N_s$ interacting strings, the exact supermembrane corresponding to $N_{s}oinfty$. The zero-mode part of $N_s-1$ strings turn out to be precisely the modes which are responsible of instabilities. For sufficiently large compactification radius $R_0$, interactions are negligible and the lowest-energy excitations are described by a set of harmonic oscillators. We compute the physical spectrum to leading order, which becomes exact in the limit $g^{2}oinfty$, where $g^{2}equiv4p{i}^2{T}_3{R}_0^3$ and $T_3$ is the membrane tension. As the radius is decreased, more strings become strongly interacting and their oscillation modes get frozen. In the zero-radius limit, the spectrum is constituted of the type IIA superstring spectrum, plus an infinite number of extra states associated with flat directions of the quartic potential.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9610018

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zbMATH Keywords

Hamiltonianmembrane tensioncompact dimensioncompactification radiuslowest-energy excitationsstrongly interacting strings

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

String and superstring theories; other extended objects (e.g., branes) in quantum field theory (81T30) String and superstring theories in gravitational theory (83E30)

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• String theory dynamics in various dimensions
• Area-preserving diffeomorphisms and supermembrane Lorentz invariance
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