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D=11 Supermembrane Instantons, W(infty) Strings and the Super Toda Molecule

High Energy Physics - Theory 2007-05-23 v1

Abstract

Exact instanton solutions to D=11D=11 spherical supermembranes moving in flat target spacetime backgrounds are construted. Our starting point is Super Yang-Mills theories, based on the infinite dimensional SU()SU(\infty) group, dimensionally reduced to one time dimension. In this fashion the super-Toda molecule equation is recovered preserving only one supersymmetry out of the N=16N=16 that one would have obtained otherwise. It is conjectured that the expected critical target spacetime dimensions for the (super) membrane, (D=11D=11) D=27D=27 is closely related to that of the noncriticalnoncritical (super) WW_{\infty} strings. A BRST analysis of these symmetries should yield information about the quantum consistency of the (D=11D=11) D=27D=27 dimensional (super) membrane. Comments on the role that Skyrmions might play in the two types of Spinning- Membrane actions construted so far is presented at the conclusion. Finally, the importance that integrability on light-lines in complex superspaces has in other types of solutions is emphasized.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/9412160,
  title  = {D=11 Supermembrane Instantons, W(infty) Strings and the Super Toda Molecule},
  author = {Carlos Castro},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/9412160},
  year   = {2007}
}

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16 pages; Latex file