The Witten Index for the Supermembrane
Jul 8, 1988
12 pages
Published in:
- Class.Quant.Grav. 5 (1988) L161
Report number:
- IMPERIAL/TH/87-88/27
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The perturbative spectrum of the supermembrane in eleven-dimensional spacetime contains massless states as a consequence of the spacetime supersymmetry of the theory. The authors show, by defining a Witten index that has strictly positive value, that supersymmetry remains unbroken non-perturbatively.- MODEL: MEMBRANE
- SUPERSYMMETRY: WITTEN INDEX
- SUPERSYMMETRY: SPONTANEOUSLY BROKEN
- FIELD THEORY: ELEVEN-DIMENSIONAL
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