Semiclassical quantization of the supermembrane Academic Article

abstract

• We approach the quantization of the eleven-dimensional supermembrane from a semiclassical viewpoint. We quantize the fluctuations around a topologically-stabilized toroidal background, and find that the bosonic and fermionic contributions to the vacuum energy cancel. This result appears to depend crucially on the fermionic gauge symmetry and spacetime supersymmetry. 1988.

authors

• Pope, Christopher
• Sezgin, Ergin

published proceedings

• Nuclear Physics B

altmetric score

• 3

author list (cited authors)

• Duff, M. J., Inami, T., Pope, C. N., Sezgin, E., & Stelle, K. S.

citation count

• 138

complete list of authors

• Duff, MJ||Inami, T||Pope, CN||Sezgin, E||Stelle, KS

publication date

• February 1988

publisher

• Elsevier  Publisher

published in

• Nuclear Physics B  Journal

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

• 10.1016/0550-3213(88)90316-1

start page

• 515

end page

• 538

volume

• 297

issue

• 3

URL

• http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0550-3213(88)90316-1