Published July 29, 2008
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Ghost-free superconformal action for multiple M2-branes
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Abstract
The Bagger-Lambert construction of Script 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 Script N = 8 super Yang-Mills theories.
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© SISSA 2008. Received 18 June 2008, accepted for publication 17 July 2008. Published 29 July 2008. We have benefitted from discussions with Joe Marsano. This work was supported in part by the U.S. Dept. of Energy under Grant No. DE-FG03-92-ER40701.Attached Files
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- 11335
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- CaltechAUTHORS:BANjhep08b
- Department of Energy (DOE)
- DE-FG03-92-ER40701
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2008-08-02Created from EPrint's datestamp field
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- 68-2689