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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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Cite

@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