Massive IIA String Theory and Matrix Theory Compactification
High Energy Physics - Theory
2010-04-05 v3
Abstract
We propose a Matrix Theory approach to Romans' massive Type IIA supergravity. It is obtained by applying the procedure of Matrix Theory compactifications to Hull's proposal of the Massive Type IIA String Theory as M-Theory on a twisted torus. The resulting Matrix Theory is a super-Yang Mills theory on large N three-branes with a space dependent non-commutativity parameter, which is also independently derived by a T-duality approach. We give evidence showing that the energies of a class of physical excitations of the super-Yang Mills theory show the correct symmetry expected from Massive Type IIA string theory in a lightcone quantization.
Cite
@article{arxiv.hep-th/0303173,
title = {Massive IIA String Theory and Matrix Theory Compactification},
author = {David A. Lowe and Horatiu Nastase and Sanjaye Ramgoolam},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/0303173},
year = {2010}
}
Comments
38 pages, latex, references added, some typos fixed