TY - JOUR
T1 - Do supermembranes contain massless particles?
AU - Mezincescu, Luca
AU - Nepomechie, Rafael I.
AU - van Nieuwenhuizen, P.
N1 - Funding Information:
We are greatly indebtedt o J.C. Nearing for providingu s with an integration programa nd for his assistancwei th the numericacla lculationsa,n d to M.T. Grisaru and J. Polchinskif or a discussion. This work was supportedin part by the National Science Foundationu nder Grant No. PHY. 87 03390( L.M. and R.I.N.) and NSF Grant No. PHY. 85 07627 (P.v.N.).
PY - 1988/11/7
Y1 - 1988/11/7
N2 - We compute the Casimir energy of an 11-dimensional Green-Schwarz supermembrane, generalizing the calculations of Kikkawa and Yamasaki for the bosonic membrane. We find a nonvanishing result. Assuming a simple relation between angular momentum and energy similar to that of the bosonic membrane, we conclude that such supermembranes do not contain massless particles.
AB - We compute the Casimir energy of an 11-dimensional Green-Schwarz supermembrane, generalizing the calculations of Kikkawa and Yamasaki for the bosonic membrane. We find a nonvanishing result. Assuming a simple relation between angular momentum and energy similar to that of the bosonic membrane, we conclude that such supermembranes do not contain massless particles.
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U2 - 10.1016/0550-3213(88)90085-5
DO - 10.1016/0550-3213(88)90085-5
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:0000378496
VL - 309
SP - 317
EP - 329
JO - Nuclear Physics B
JF - Nuclear Physics B
SN - 0550-3213
IS - 2
ER -