Ghost-Free Superconformal Action for Multiple M2-Branes
The Bagger--Lambert construction of N = 8 superconformal field theories (SCFT) in three dimensions is based on 3-algebras. Three groups of researchers recently realized that an arbitrary semisimple Lie algebra can be incorporated by using a suitable Lorentzian signature 3-algebra. The SU(N) case is...
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| author | Bandres, M Lipstein, A Schwarz, J |
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| description | The Bagger--Lambert construction of N = 8 superconformal field theories (SCFT) in three dimensions is based on 3-algebras. Three groups of researchers recently realized that an arbitrary semisimple Lie algebra can be incorporated by using a suitable Lorentzian signature 3-algebra. The SU(N) case is a candidate for the SCFT describing coincident M2-branes. However, these theories contain ghost degrees of freedom, which is unsatisfactory. We modify them by gauging certain global symmetries. This eliminates the ghosts from these theories while preserving all of their desirable properties. The resulting theories turn out to be precisely equivalent to N = 8 super Yang--Mills theories. |
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| spelling | oxford-uuid:30516d7b-3669-45f4-b859-af1c3a4f8e6b2022-03-26T13:00:41ZGhost-Free Superconformal Action for Multiple M2-BranesJournal articlehttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_dcae04bcuuid:30516d7b-3669-45f4-b859-af1c3a4f8e6bSymplectic Elements at Oxford2008Bandres, MLipstein, ASchwarz, JThe Bagger--Lambert construction of N = 8 superconformal field theories (SCFT) in three dimensions is based on 3-algebras. Three groups of researchers recently realized that an arbitrary semisimple Lie algebra can be incorporated by using a suitable Lorentzian signature 3-algebra. The SU(N) case is a candidate for the SCFT describing coincident M2-branes. However, these theories contain ghost degrees of freedom, which is unsatisfactory. We modify them by gauging certain global symmetries. This eliminates the ghosts from these theories while preserving all of their desirable properties. The resulting theories turn out to be precisely equivalent to N = 8 super Yang--Mills theories. |
| spellingShingle | Bandres, M Lipstein, A Schwarz, J Ghost-Free Superconformal Action for Multiple M2-Branes |
| title | Ghost-Free Superconformal Action for Multiple M2-Branes |
| title_full | Ghost-Free Superconformal Action for Multiple M2-Branes |
| title_fullStr | Ghost-Free Superconformal Action for Multiple M2-Branes |
| title_full_unstemmed | Ghost-Free Superconformal Action for Multiple M2-Branes |
| title_short | Ghost-Free Superconformal Action for Multiple M2-Branes |
| title_sort | ghost free superconformal action for multiple m2 branes |
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