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M2-branes on a constant flux background

High Energy Physics - Theory 2019-09-11 v3

Abstract

We describe a compactified Supermembrane, or M2-brane, with 2-form fluxes generated by constant three-forms that are turned on a 2-torus of the target space M9×T2M_9\times T^2. We compare this theory with the one describing a 11D11D M2-brane formulated on M9×T2M_9\times T^2 target space subject to an irreducible wrapping condition. We show that the flux generated by the bosonic 3-form under consideration is in a one to one correspondence to the irreducible wrapping condition. After a canonical transformation both Hamiltonians are exactly the same up to a constant shift in one particular case. Consequently both of them, share the same spectral properties. We conclude that the Hamiltonian of the M2-brane with 2-form target space fluxes on a torus has a purely discrete spectrum with eigenvalues of finite multiplicity and it can be considered to describe a new sector of the microscopic degrees of freedom of M-theory. We also show that the total membrane momentum in the direction associated to the flux condition acquires a quantized contribution in correspondence to the flux units that have been turned on.

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@article{arxiv.1811.11231,
  title  = {M2-branes on a constant flux background},
  author = {M. P. Garcia del Moral and C. Las Heras and P. Leon and J. M. Pena and A. Restuccia},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1811.11231},
  year   = {2019}
}

Comments

Latex, 15 pages, title changed, paper revised, results improved

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