Supermembranes with winding

May, 1997
10 pages
Published in:
  • Phys.Lett.B 409 (1997) 117-123
e-Print:
Report number:
  • THU-97-11,
  • NIKHEF-97-020

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Abstract:
We study supermembranes in the light-cone gauge in eleven flat dimensions with compact directions. The membrane states are subject to only the central charges associated with closed two-branes, which, in this case, are generated by the winding itself. We present arguments why this winding leaves the mass spectrum continuous. The lower bound on the mass spectrum is set by the winding number and corresponds to a BPS state.
Note:
  • 10 pages, LaTeX2e Report-no: THU-97/11, NIKHEF 97-020
  • membrane model
  • supersymmetry: superfield
  • dimension: 11
  • light cone gauge
  • Hamiltonian formalism
  • field theory: soliton
  • mass spectrum