Stretched quantum membranes

DOI10.1016/J.NUCLPHYSB.2005.08.041MaRDI QIDQ876224zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Jonas Björnsson, Stephen Hwang

Publication date 16 April 2007

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0505269

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

Abstract: We study bosonic and space-time supersymmetric membranes with small tensions corresponding to stretched configurations. Using a generalized lightcone gauge, one may set up a perturbation theory around configurations having zero tension. We will show, by explicit construction to all orders in perturbation theory, that these membrane configurations are canonically equivalent, and thereby solvable, to string-like configurations with string excitations transverse to the stretched direction. At the quantum level, it is shown that there exists an ordering such that equivalence by unitary transformations is achieved. Consistency requires the critical dimensions 27 and 11 for the bosonic and supersymmetric cases, respectively. The mass spectrum is determined to any order. It is discrete and contains massless exitations. The ground state is purely string-like, whereas excited string-like states split through the perturbation into an infinite set of states with equal or lower energies.

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