1997/04/23 by Martin Cederwall
Physics and Astronomy · #Action (physics) #Black Holes and Theoretical Physics #Boundary (topology) #Boundary value problem #Brane #Brane cosmology #Cosmology and Gravitation Theories #Coupling (piping) #Gauge theory #Geometry #Mathematical analysis #Mathematical physics #Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies #Physics #Quantum electrodynamics #Quantum mechanics #String (physics) #String theory #Symmetry (geometry) #Theoretical physics #hep-th
paper · pdf · doi:10.1142/s0217732397002776
published as Mod.Phys.Lett.A12:2641-2645,1997 · plain tex, 6pp
arxiv created 1997/04/23 · openalex publication_date 1997/11/10 · arxiv updated 2014/11/17 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05
The action for an 11-dimensional supermembrane contains a chiral Wess–Zumino–Witten model coupling to the E 8 super-Yang–Mills theory on the end-of-the-world nine-brane. It is demonstrated that this boundary string theory is dictated both by gauge invariance and by κ-symmetry.