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Remarks on the existence of Spinning Membrane Actions

High Energy Physics - Theory 2007-05-23 v5

Abstract

It has been recently argued by some authors that is impossible to construct a Weyl invariant spinning membrane action, where the SS-supersymmetry associated with the 3D superconformal algebra, is relinquished without gauge fixing. Contrary to those assertions, we show why it is possible to construct a Weyl-invariant spinning polynomial membrane action, without curvature terms,where bothboth the conformal boost symmetry and SS-supersymmetry are explicitly broken by the action. It is shown that the gauge algebra closescloses despite that the two latter symmetries are broken . For this to happen, a modifed QQ-supersymmetry transformation, a sort of new Q+K+SQ+K+S ``sum `` rule, is required that generates the compensating terms to cancel the spurious contributions fromthe SS and conformal boost anomalous transformations. A substantial discussion of the quantization of the spinning membrane and anomalies is given. We review briefly the role that this spinning membrane action may have in the theory of DD-branes, Skyrmions and BPS monopoles in the large NN-limit of SU(N) Yang-Mills .

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/0007031,
  title  = {Remarks on the existence of Spinning Membrane Actions},
  author = {Carlos Castro},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/0007031},
  year   = {2007}
}

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35 page, revised Tex file. Correction of minor typos and an one reference is added