Remarks on the existence of Spinning Membrane Actions
Abstract
It has been recently argued by some authors that is impossible to construct a Weyl invariant spinning membrane action, where the -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 the conformal boost symmetry and -supersymmetry are explicitly broken by the action. It is shown that the gauge algebra despite that the two latter symmetries are broken . For this to happen, a modifed -supersymmetry transformation, a sort of new ``sum `` rule, is required that generates the compensating terms to cancel the spurious contributions fromthe 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 -branes, Skyrmions and BPS monopoles in the large -limit of SU(N) Yang-Mills .
Cite
@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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