Supermembranes and eleven-dimensional supergravity Academic Article uri icon

abstract

  • We construct an action for a supermembrane propagating in d = 1 supergravity background. Using the constraints of d = 11 curved superspace, we show that the action is invariant under Siegel-type tranformations recently generalized by Hughes, Li and Polchinski. The transformation parameter is a world-volume scalar and d = 11 spacetime spinor. We also discuss the general problem of the coupling of n-dimensional extended objects to d-dimensional supergravity. 1987.

published proceedings

  • Physics Letters B

altmetric score

  • 3

author list (cited authors)

  • Bergshoeff, E., Sezgin, E., & Townsend, P. K.

citation count

  • 627

publication date

  • April 1987