Supercurves
High Energy Physics - Theory
2015-06-26 v1
Abstract
The TST-dual of the general 1/4-supersymmetric D2-brane supertube is identified as a 1/4-supersymmetric IIA `supercurve': a string with arbitrary transverse displacement travelling at the speed of light. A simple proof is given of the classical upper bound on the angular momentum, which is also recovered as the semi-classical limit of a quantum bound. The classical bound is saturated by a `superhelix', while the quantum bound is saturated by a bosonic oscillator state in a unique SO(8) representation.
Cite
@article{arxiv.hep-th/0204062,
title = {Supercurves},
author = {David Mateos and Selena Ng and Paul K. Townsend},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/0204062},
year = {2015}
}
Comments
1+14 pages, LaTeX