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Ground State of Supermembrane on PP-wave

High Energy Physics - Theory 2009-11-07 v2

Abstract

We consider the ground state of supermembrane on the maximally supersymmetric pp-wave background by using the quantum-mechanical procedure of de Wit-Hoppe-Nicolai. In the pp-wave case the ground state has non-trivial structure even in the zero-mode Hamiltonian, which is identical with that of superparticles on the pp-wave and resembles supersymmetric harmonic oscillators. The supergravity multiplet in the flat case is splitting with a certain energy difference. We explicitly construct the unique supersymmetric ground-state wave function of the zero-mode Hamiltonian, which is obviously normalizable. Moreover, we discuss the nonzero-mode Hamiltonian and construct an example for the ground-state wave function with a truncation of the variables. This special solution seems non-normalizable but its L^2-norm can be represented by an asymptotic series.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/0209081,
  title  = {Ground State of Supermembrane on PP-wave},
  author = {Noriko Nakayama and Katsuyuki Sugiyama and Kentaroh Yoshida},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/0209081},
  year   = {2009}
}

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27 pages, LaTeX, typos corrected