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M2-Brane Superalgebra from Bagger-Lambert Theory

High Energy Physics - Theory 2009-12-10 v1

Abstract

It is known that the M2-brane worldvolume superalgebra includes two p-form central charges that encode the M-theory intersections involving M2-branes. In this paper we show by explicit computation that the Bagger-Lambert Lagrangian realizes the M2-brane superalgebra, including also the central extensions. Solitons of the Bagger-Lambert theory, that are interpreted as worldvolume realizations of intersecting branes, are shown to saturate a BPS-bound given in terms of the corresponding central charge.

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@article{arxiv.0806.0363,
  title  = {M2-Brane Superalgebra from Bagger-Lambert Theory},
  author = {Filippo Passerini},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0806.0363},
  year   = {2009}
}

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19 pages, harvmac

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