COMPACTIFICATIONS OF THE 11-DIMENSIONAL SUPERMEMBRANE Academic Article uri icon

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.

published proceedings

  • PHYSICS LETTERS B

author list (cited authors)

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

citation count

  • 29

complete list of authors

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

publication date

  • June 1989