Supermembranes
James Hughes, Jun Liu, Joseph Polchinski (Texas U.)

Sep 30, 1986 - 5 pages

Abstract (Elsevier)
An example is given of the spontaneous breaking of D = 4, N = 2 global supersymmetry down to N = 1. The example is a four-dimensional membrane in a six-dimensional supersymmetric gauge theory. The effective low-energy action for the membrane is a generalization of the Green—Schwarz covariant action.


Keyword(s): INSPIRE: SUPERSYMMETRY: SPONTANEOUSLY BROKEN | FIELD THEORY: FOUR-DIMENSIONAL | FIELD THEORY: SIX-DIMENSIONAL | FIELD THEORY: ACTION | GAUGE FIELD THEORY: U(1)
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