Noncritical M-theory: Three Dimensions

2004/08/05 by Michael McGuigan, McGuigan, Michael
Physics and Astronomy · #Black Holes and Theoretical Physics #Cosmology and Gravitation Theories #FOS: Physical sciences #High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th) #Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies #hep-th

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.hep-th/0408041

44 pages

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Abstract

At the macrosopic level we study candidate 3D effective field theories associated to M theory in three dimensions. These represent analogs of 11D supergravity for eleven dimensional M-theory. At the microscopic level we study various world volume (WV) theories that can be used to relate world sheet (WS) theories of two dimensional strings. These are better defined for 3D targets than their 11D counterparts in part because there are no transverse dimensions. In particular M-theory on the target manifold AdS3 and RxSL(2,R)/SO(2) are studied using a supermembrane and WV 3d gravity approach.

Citations

• The exceptional Jordan algebra and the matrix string
• BRST quantization of Matrix Chern-Simons Theory
• Two Dimensional Yang-Mills, Black Holes and Topological Strings
• Superstrings on AdS₂ and Superconformal Matrix Quantum Mechanics
• 2 + 1 dimensional gravity as an exactly soluble system
• Self-dual solutions of 2+1 Einstein gravity with a negative cosmological constant

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• Three Dimensional Gravity and M-Theory
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