Covariant action and equations of motion for the eleven dimensional multiple M0-brane system
Abstract
We study the properties of the covariant supersymmetric and kappa-symmetric action for a system of N nearly coincident M0-branes (mM0 system) in flat eleven dimensional (11D) superspace and obtain supersymmetric equations for this dynamical system. Although a single M0-brane is the massless 11D superparticle, center of energy motion of the mM0 system is characterized by a nonnegative constant mass M constructed from the matrix fields describing the relative motion of mM0 constituents. We show that a bosonic solution of the mM0 equations can be supersymmetric iff this effective mass vanishes, M=0, and that all the supersymmetric bosonic solutions preserve just one half of the 11D supersymmetry.
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@article{arxiv.1304.0382,
title = {Covariant action and equations of motion for the eleven dimensional multiple M0-brane system},
author = {Igor A. Bandos and Carlos Meliveo},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1304.0382},
year = {2013}
}
Comments
23 pages, RevTeX4, no figures. V2: 24 pages, cosmetic changes, misprints corrected, reference and some comments added, to appear in PRD