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The discrete spectrum of the D=11 bosonic M5-brane

High Energy Physics - Theory 2008-11-26 v2

Abstract

We prove that the spectrum of the regularized M5-brane in D=11 target space is discrete with eigenvalues extending to infinity. The proof includes the same result for the spectra of regularized bosonic p-branes in general.

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@article{arxiv.0705.3692,
  title  = {The discrete spectrum of the D=11 bosonic M5-brane},
  author = {I. Martin and L. Navarro and A. J. Perez and A. Restuccia},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0705.3692},
  year   = {2008}
}

Comments

13 pages, no figures. References have been added, typos corrected, formulae have been simplified and proof of main claim has been improved