COMPACTIFICATIONS OF THE 11-DIMENSIONAL SUPERMEMBRANE Academic Article

abstract

• We construct new vacua for the eleven-dimensional supermembrane in which spacetime is the product of four-dimensional anti-de Sitter space and a compact seven-dimensional Einstein space, and the membrane is a sphere of non-zero radius in the anti-de Sitter space. In one class of solution the radius is a specific multiple of the anti-de Sitter scale parameter while in a second class the radius is arbitrary. Remarkably, only two of the Freund-Rubin compactifications admit vacua of the latter class: the round seven-sphere with N=8 supersymmetry and the N(0, 1) space with N=3 supersymmetry. 1989.

authors

• Pope, Christopher
• Sezgin, Ergin

published proceedings

• PHYSICS LETTERS B

author list (cited authors)

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

citation count

• 32

complete list of authors

• BERGSHOEFF, E||DUFF, MJ||POPE, CN||SEZGIN, E

publication date

• June 1989

publisher

• Elsevier  Publisher

published in

• Physics Letters B  Journal

keywords

• 49 Mathematical Sciences
• 4902 Mathematical Physics
• 51 Physical Sciences
• 5107 Particle And High Energy Physics

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

• 10.1016/0370-2693(89)91053-8

start page

• 71

end page

• 78

volume

• 224

issue

• 1-2

URL

• http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0370-2693(89)91053-8