2002/05/30 by Paul Townsend, Paul K. Townsend, Townsend, Paul K. · 1 citation
Physics and Astronomy · #Black Holes and Theoretical Physics #FOS: Physical sciences #High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th) #Quantum Chromodynamics and Particle Interactions #Quantum and Classical Electrodynamics #hep-th
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.hep-th/0205309
10 pp, Contribution to Stephen Hawking's 60th birthday conference
arxiv created 2002/05/30 · openalex publication_date 2002/05/30 · arxiv updated 2009/11/30 · openalex created_date 2024/04/11 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
The origins of the 11-dimensional supermembrane are recalled, and a curious property is discussed: the field theory limit of a supermembrane in a hyper-Kähler background is a 3-dimensional sigma-model with N=4 supersymmetry, but the higher-order fermion interactions of the supermembrane generically break this to N=3.