Supermembrane dynamics from multiple interacting strings

DOI10.1016/S0550-3213(97)80032-6MaRDI QIDQ678296zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors J. G. Russo

Publication date 16 April 1997

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

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

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)

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.

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