Ghost Number Cohomologies and M-theory Quantum States
High Energy Physics - Theory
2009-10-30 v2
Abstract
We review and develop the formalism of ghost number cohomologies, outlined in our previous work, to classify the quantum states of M-theory. We apply this formalism to the matrix formulation of M-theory to obtain NSR superstring action from dimensionally reduced matrix model. The BPS condition of the matrix theory is related to the worldsheet reparametrizational invariance in superstring theory, underlining the connection between unbroken supersymmetries in M-theory and superstring gauge symmetries.
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@article{arxiv.hep-th/9705194,
title = {Ghost Number Cohomologies and M-theory Quantum States},
author = {Dimitri Polyakov},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/9705194},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
14 pages, TeX,typo in the Introduction is corrected ("type IIB theory" of the original version should be read as "type IIA")