Light-cone Quantum Mechanics of the Eleven-dimensional Superparticle

Abstract

The linearized interactions of eleven-dimensional supergravity are obtained in a manifestly supersymmetric light-cone gauge formalism. These vertices are used to calculate certain one-loop processes involving external gravitini, antisymmetric three-form potentials and gravitons, thereby determining some protected terms in the effective action of M-theory compactified on a two-torus.Comment: 31 pages, harvmac (b); A minor TeX error correcte