Superspace geometry for supermembrane backgrounds
Mar, 1998
26 pages
Published in:
- Nucl.Phys.B 532 (1998) 99-123
e-Print:
- hep-th/9803209 [hep-th]
Report number:
- THU-98-13,
- NIKHEF-98-006
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Abstract:
We construct part of the superspace vielbein and tensor gauge field in terms of the component fields of 11-dimensional on-shell supergravity. The result can be utilized to describe supermembranes and corresponding matrix models for Dirichlet particles in nontrivial supergravity backgrounds to second order in anticommuting coordinates. We exhibit the kappa-invariance of the corresponding supermembrane action, which at this order holds for unrestricted supergravity backgrounds, the supersymmetry covariance and the resulting surface terms in the action.Note:
- LaTeX, 27 pages. v2: typos corrected, abstract extended, acknowledgement added Report-no: THU-98/13, NIKHEF 98-006
- 04.65.+e
- 11.30.Pb
- Supergravity
- Supermembranes
- M-theory
- supergravity
- dimension: 11
- supersymmetry: superspace
- geometry
- background field
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