The Story of M
High Energy Physics - Theory
2007-05-23 v1
Abstract
The origins of the 11-dimensional supermembrane are recalled, and a curious property is discussed: the field theory limit of a supermembrane in a hyper-K\"ahler background is a 3-dimensional sigma-model with N=4 supersymmetry, but the higher-order fermion interactions of the supermembrane generically break this to N=3.
Cite
@article{arxiv.hep-th/0205309,
title = {The Story of M},
author = {Paul K. Townsend},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/0205309},
year = {2007}
}
Comments
10 pp, Contribution to Stephen Hawking's 60th birthday conference