WORLD SHEET FORMULATION OF M THEORY

DOI10.1142/S0217751X98002377MaRDI QIDQ4261988zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

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Publication date 19 September 1999

Published in International Journal of Modern Physics A (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9804084

zbMATH Keywords

\(D\) branesanti-de Sitter space-timeM theorynonlocal boundary statesstring tensiontopological gauge theoryworld sheet defects

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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) String and superstring theories in gravitational theory (83E30)

Abstract: We first review the interpretation of world-sheet defects as $D$ branes described by a critical theory in 11 dimensions, that we interpret as $M$ theory. We then show that $D$-brane recoil induces dynamically an anti-de-Sitter (AdS) space-time background, with criticality restored by a twelfth time-like dimension described by a Liouville field. Local physics in the bulk of this AdS${}_{11}$ may be described by an $Osp(1|32,R)otimesOsp(1|32,R)$ topological gauge theory (TGT), with non-local boundary states in doubleton representations. We draw analogies with structures previously exhibited in two-dimensional black-hole models. Wilson loops of `matter' in the TGT may be described by an effective string action, and defect condensation may yield string tension and cause a space-time metric to appear.

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