A STABLE SUPERMEMBRANE VACUUM WITH A DISCRETE SPECTRUM Academic Article uri icon

abstract

  • We examine the massless spectrum of the supermembrane in the background of four-dimensional anti-de Sitter space times a compact internal space, by considering quantization about a collapsed membrane configuration. We also observe that the vacuum is stable and that the spectrum of massive states is necessarily discrete. In this respect, the supermembrane favours anti-de Sitter over Minkowski space, where the spectrum seems likely to be continuous. 1989.

published proceedings

  • PHYSICS LETTERS B

author list (cited authors)

  • DUFF, M. J., POPE, C. N., & SEZGIN, E.

citation count

  • 10

complete list of authors

  • DUFF, MJ||POPE, CN||SEZGIN, E

publication date

  • July 1989