A brief history of supermembranes
High Energy Physics - Theory
2025-03-11 v1
Abstract
``When to the sessions of sweet silent thought I summon up re-membranes of things past, I sigh the lack of many a thing I sought''. (Apologies to William Shakespeare)
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@article{arxiv.2503.06234,
title = {A brief history of supermembranes},
author = {Eric A. Bergshoeff and Ergin Sezgin and Paul K. Townsend},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2503.06234},
year = {2025}
}
Comments
22 pages. Contribution to "Half a Century of Supergravity'', eds. A. Ceresole, G. Dall'Agata