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Quantum state spectrum and field theory of D$0$-brane

High Energy Physics - Theory 2025-12-02 v2 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology Mathematical Physics math.MP Quantum Physics

Abstract

We quantize D00-brane, the simplest representative of the family of supersymmetric Dirichlet p-branes, in its spinor moving frame formulation and analyze its quantum state spectrum. Besides being a preparatory stage for quantization of the complete supersymmetric multiple D00-brane (mD00) model, which is presently known only in the frame of spinor moving frame formalism, this is interesting as its own: despite the covariant quantization of D=10 D00-brane was discussed before, its quantum state spectrum was not analyzed and its field theory, describing that, was not studied. We show that the quantum state vector of the D00-brane is described by an on-shell superfield that collects the fields of the massive counterpart of the linearized type IIA supergravity supermultiplet which can be obtained as massive Kaluza-Klein mode of the dimensional reduction of the eleven dimensional supergravity down to ten dimensions. In conclusion, we briefly discuss a spinor helicity formalism for D00-brane which can be used as one of the basic elements for developing type IIA string theory amplitude calculus based on multiparticle generalizations of the on-shell superfields.

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@article{arxiv.2509.11324,
  title  = {Quantum state spectrum and field theory of D$0$-brane},
  author = {Igor Bandos and Unai D. M. Sarraga and Mirian Tsulaia},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2509.11324},
  year   = {2025}
}

Comments

Revtex4-2, 51 pages, no figures. V2: 34 pages; essentially shortened version published in JHEP