2014/06/23 by Andrei Smilga, A. V. Smilga, Smilga, A. V.
Physics and Astronomy · #FOS: Physical sciences #High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th) #Noncommutative and Quantum Gravity Theories #Quantum Electrodynamics and Casimir Effect #Quantum chaos and dynamical systems #hep-th
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1406.5987
10 pages, 2 figures. Published in the Proceedings of the conference on Supermembranes and Physics in 2+1 Dimensions (Trieste, 1989). Commas and articles added
arxiv created 2014/06/23 · openalex publication_date 2014/06/23 · arxiv updated 2014/06/24 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
It is shown that the mass spectrum of supermembrane theory is continuous. This fact is due to the trivial circumstance that a membrane can emit "needles" of zero area with no cost in energy. In supersymmetric case, this classical degeneracy is not lifted by quantum corrections. This unpleasant property may be cured, perhaps, for the supermembrane with a modified action involving higher derivative terms.