Published February 15, 1988
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Journal article
Semiclassical quantization of the supermembrane
- 1. International Centre for Theoretical Physics, Trieste (Italy)
Description
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 and energy cancel. This result appears to depend crucially on the fermionic gauge symmetry and spacetime supersymmetry. (orig.)
Additional details
Publishing Information
- Journal Title
- Nucl. Phys. B, Part. Phys.
- Journal Volume
- 297
- Journal Issue
- 3
- Series
- Nucl. Phys. B, Part. Phys.
- Journal Page Range
- 515-538
- ISSN
- 0550-3213
- CODEN
- NUPBB
INIS
- Country of Publication
- Netherlands
- Country of Input or Organization
- Netherlands
- INIS RN
- 19042549
- Subject category
- S71: CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM MECHANICS, GENERAL PHYSICS;
- Descriptors DEI
- ACTION INTEGRAL; ANNIHILATION OPERATORS; BOSONS; COMMUTATION RELATIONS; CREATION OPERATORS; ENERGY LEVELS; ENERGY SPECTRA; EQUATIONS OF MOTION; EXTENDED PARTICLE MODEL; FERMIONS; FLUCTUATIONS; GAUGE INVARIANCE; MANY-DIMENSIONAL CALCULATIONS; MEMBRANES; QUANTIZATION; REST MASS; SEMICLASSICAL APPROXIMATION; SPACE-TIME; STABILITY; SUPERSYMMETRY; TOPOLOGY; VACUUM STATES
- Descriptors DEC
- DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; EQUATIONS; INTEGRALS; INVARIANCE PRINCIPLES; MASS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MATHEMATICAL OPERATORS; MATHEMATICS; PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; PARTICLE MODELS; QUANTUM OPERATORS; SPECTRA; SYMMETRY; VARIATIONS