Open supermembranes coupled to M theory five-branes

Jul, 1997
13 pages
Published in:
  • Phys.Lett.B 416 (1998) 295-302
e-Print:
Report number:
  • LPTM-97-33,
  • SACLAY-SPH-T-97-85

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Abstract:
We consider open supermembranes in eleven dimensions in the presence of closed M-Theory five-branes. It has been shown that, in a flat space-time, the world-volume action is kappa invariant and preserves a fraction of the eleven dimensional supersymmetries if the boundaries of the membranes lie on the five-branes. We calculate the reparametrisation anomalies due to the chiral fermions on the boundaries of the membrane and examine their cancellation mechanism. We show that these anomalies cancel with the aid of a classical term in the world-volume action, provided that the tensions of the five-brane and the membrane are related to the eleven dimensional gravitational constant in a way already noticed in M-Theory.
Note:
  • Latex, 14 pages Report-no: LPTM 97/33, SPht 97/85
  • membrane model: p-brane
  • membrane model: open
  • field theory: M-theory
  • p-brane: 5
  • supersymmetry
  • dimension: 11
  • fermion: chiral
  • anomaly
  • transformation: reparametrization
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