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Supermembrane dynamics from multiple interacting strings
The supermembrane theory on is investigated, for membranes that
wrap once around the compact dimension. The Hamiltonian can be organized as
describing interacting strings, the exact supermembrane corresponding to
. The zero-mode part of strings turn out to be precisely
the modes which are responsible of instabilities. For sufficiently large
compactification radius , 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 , where and 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.Comment: Small corrections. 21 page
Stability of the quantum supermembrane in a manifold with boundary
We point out an effect which may stabilize a supersymmetric membrane moving
on a manifold with boundary, and lead to a light-cone Hamiltonian with a
discrete spectrum of eigenvalues. The analysis is carried out explicitly for a
closed supermembrane in the regularized matrix model version.Comment: 10 pages, harvmac (references added, minor changes
T-duality in M-theory and supermembranes
The (q_1,q_2) SL(2,Z) string bound states of type IIB superstring theory
admit two inequivalent (T-dual) representations in eleven dimensions in terms
of a fundamental 2-brane. In both cases, the spectrum of membrane oscillations
can be determined exactly in the limit , where is the
type IIA string coupling. We find that the BPS mass formulas agree, and
reproduce the BPS mass spectrum of the string bound state. In the
non-BPS sector, the respective mass formulas apply in different corners of the
moduli space. The axiomatic requirement of T-duality in M-theory permits to
derive a discrete mass spectrum in a (thin torus) region where standard
supermembrane theory undergoes instabilities.Comment: harvmac, 9 page
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