Massless spectrum and critical dimension of the supermembrane Academic Article

abstract

• We show the existence of massless particles in the supermembrane. These occur in the sector of a completely collapsed membrane and receive zero vacuum energy thanks to supersymmetry. Only in the 11-dimensional supermembrane the massless states include a graviton. Thus, in the critical dimension d = 11 the massless particles correspond to the supergravity multiplet. We also find that higher extended objects beyond the supermembrane have no critical dimension in which the supergravity multiplet emerges. 1987.

authors

• Pope, Christopher
• Sezgin, Ergin

published proceedings

• Physics Letters B

author list (cited authors)

• Bars, I., Pope, C. N., & Sezgin, E.

citation count

• 60

complete list of authors

• Bars, Itzhak||Pope, Christopher N||Sezgin, Ergin

publication date

• December 1987

publisher

• Elsevier  Publisher

published in

• Physics Letters B: Nuclear Physics and Particle Physics  Journal

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

• 10.1016/0370-2693(87)90899-9

start page

• 455

end page

• 460

volume

• 198

issue

• 4