BOUNDARIES OF 11-DIMENSIONAL MEMBRANES

Authors
Citation
M. Cederwall, BOUNDARIES OF 11-DIMENSIONAL MEMBRANES, Modern physics letters A, 12(34), 1997, pp. 2641-2645
Citations number
23
Categorie Soggetti
Physics, Nuclear","Physics, Particles & Fields","Physycs, Mathematical
Journal title
ISSN journal
02177323
Volume
12
Issue
34
Year of publication
1997
Pages
2641 - 2645
Database
ISI
SICI code
0217-7323(1997)12:34<2641:BO1M>2.0.ZU;2-8
Abstract
The action for an 11-dimensional supermembrane contains a chiral Wess- Zumino-Witten model coupling to the E-8 super-Yang-Mills theory on the end-of-the-world nine-brane. It is demonstrated that this boundary st ring theory is dictated both by gauge invariance and by kappa-symmetry .