1997/07/31 by Kiyoshi Ezawa, K. Ezawa, Yutaka Matsuo +3 · 1 citation
Mathematics · Physics and Astronomy · #Algebraic structures and combinatorial models #Black Holes and Theoretical Physics #Quantum Chromodynamics and Particle Interactions #hep-th
paper · pdf · doi:10.1103/physrevd.57.5118
published as Phys.Rev. D57 (1998) 5118-5133 · 30 pages, Latex, references and Appendix E added, some minor changes made
arxiv created 1997/11/26 · openalex publication_date 1998/04/15 · arxiv updated 2009/11/30 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
We study open supermembranes in 11-dimensional rigid superspace with 6-dimensional topological defects (M-theory five-branes). After rederiving in the Green-Schwarz formalism the boundary conditions for open superstrings in the type-IIA theory, we determine the boundary conditions for open supermembranes by imposing kappa symmetry and invariance under a fraction of 11-dimensional supersymmetry. The result seems to imply the self-duality of the three-form field strength on the five-brane world volume. We show that the light-cone gauge formulation is regularized by a dimensional reduction of a six-dimensional N=1 super-Yang-Mills theory with the gauge group SO(\stackrel\ensuremath→N\ensuremath∞). We also analyze the supersymmetry algebra and BPS states in the light-cone gauge.