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Matrices on a point as the theory of everything

High Energy Physics - Theory 2009-12-30 v2

Abstract

It is shown that the world-line can be eliminated in the matrix quantum mechanics conjectured by Banks, Fischler, Shenker and Susskind to describe the light-cone physics of M theory. The resulting matrix model has a form that suggests origins in the reduction to a point of a Yang-Mills theory. The reduction of the Nishino-Sezgin 10+2 dimensional supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory to a point gives a matrix model with the appropriate features: Lorentz invariance in 9+1 dimensions, supersymmetry, and the correct number of physical degrees of freedom.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/9611103,
  title  = {Matrices on a point as the theory of everything},
  author = {Vipul Periwal},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/9611103},
  year   = {2009}
}

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