Supermembrane dynamics from multiple interacting strings

J. G. Russo

doi:10.1016/S0550-3213(97)80032-6

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Supermembrane dynamics from multiple interacting strings

arXiv:hep-th/9610018 · doi:10.1016/S0550-3213(97)80032-6

Abstract

The supermembrane theory on $R^{10} x S^{1}$ is investigated, for membranes that wrap once around the compact dimension. The Hamiltonian can be organized as describing $N_{s}$ interacting strings, the exact supermembrane corresponding to $N_{s} \to \infty$ . The zero-mode part of $N_{s} - 1$ strings turn out to be precisely the modes which are responsible of instabilities. For sufficiently large compactification radius $R_{0}$ , interactions are negligible and the lowest-energy excitations are described by a set of harmonic oscillators. We compute the physical spectrum to leading order, which becomes exact in the limit $g^{2} \to \infty$ , where $g^{2} \equiv 4 π^{2} T_{3} R_{0}^{3}$ and $T_{3}$ is the membrane tension. As the radius is decreased, more strings become strongly interacting and their oscillation modes get frozen. In the zero-radius limit, the spectrum is constituted of the type IIA superstring spectrum, plus an infinite number of extra states associated with flat directions of the quartic potential.

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Supermembrane dynamics from multiple interacting strings

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