SL(5) duality from canonical M2-brane
High Energy Physics - Theory
2015-06-11 v3
Abstract
We show how the SL(5) duality in M-theory is explained from a canonical analysis of M2-brane mechanics. Diffeomorphism constraints for a M2-brane coupled to supergravity background in d=4 are reformulated in a SL(5) covariant form, in which spatial diffeomorphism constraints are recast into a SL(5) vector and the generalized metric in the Hamiltonian constraint is quartic in the SL(5) generalized vielbein. The Hamiltonian for a M2 brane has the SL(5) duality symmetry in a background dependent gauge.
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@article{arxiv.1208.1232,
title = {SL(5) duality from canonical M2-brane},
author = {Machiko Hatsuda and Kiyoshi Kamimura},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1208.1232},
year = {2015}
}
Comments
13 pages; v2: comments and references added; v3: a reference corrected, version to appear on JHEP