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Toward relating the kappa-symmetric and pure-spinor versions of the supermembrane
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Babalic, M. (author)
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- Wyllard, Niclas, 1971 (author)
- Chalmers tekniska högskola,Chalmers University of Technology
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(creator_code:org_t)
- 2008
- 2008
- English.
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In: Journal of High Energy Physics. - 1029-8479 .- 1126-6708. ; :10, s. 15-
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- We study the relation between the kappa-symmetric formulation of the supermembrane in eleven dimensions and the pure-spinor version. Recently, Berkovits related the Green-Schwarz and pure-spinor superstrings. In this paper, we attempt to extend this method to the supermembrane. We show that it is possible to reinstate the reparameterisation constraints in the pure-spinor formulation of the supermembrane by introducing a topological sector and performing a similarity transformation. The resulting BRST charge is then of conventional type and is argued to be (related to) the BRST charge of the kappa-symmetric supermembrane in a formulation where all second class constraints are 'gauge unfixed' to first class constraints. In our analysis we also encounter a natural candidate for a (non-covariant) supermembrane analogue of the superstring b ghost.
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- NATURVETENSKAP -- Fysik (hsv//swe)
- NATURAL SCIENCES -- Physical Sciences (hsv//eng)
Keyword
- M-Theory
- BRST Quantization
- p-branes
- 2ND-CLASS CONSTRAINTS
- SYSTEMS
- SUPERSTRINGS
- QUANTIZATION
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