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Open and Closed Supermembranes with Winding

High Energy Physics - Theory 2009-10-30 v1

Abstract

Motivated by manifest Lorentz symmetry and a well-defined large-N limit prescription, we study the supersymmetric quantum mechanics proposed as a model for the collective dynamics of D0-branes from the point of view of the 11-dimensional supermembrane. We argue that the continuity of the spectrum persists irrespective of the presence of winding around compact target-space directions and discuss the central charges in the superalgebra arising from winding membrane configurations. Along the way we comment on the structure of open supermembranes.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/9710215,
  title  = {Open and Closed Supermembranes with Winding},
  author = {Bernard de Wit and Kasper Peeters and Jan Plefka},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/9710215},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

Contribution to the proc. Strings '97, 10 pages, LaTeX, uses espcrc2

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