Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Theory
Scientific paper
2005-12-15
Phys.Rev.D81:046006,2010
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Theory
24 pages; v2. current address added; v3. extensively rewritten, published version
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevD.81.046006
In M(atrix) theory, there exist membranes and longitudinal 5-branes (L5-branes) as extended objects. Transverse components of these brane solutions are known to be described by fuzzy CP^k (k=1,2), where k=1 and k=2 correspond to spherical membranes and L5-branes of CP^2 \times S^1 world-volume geometry, respectively. In addition to these solutions, we here show the existence of L7-branes of CP^3 \times S^1 geometry, introducing extra potentials to the M(atrix) theory Lagrangian. As in the cases of k=1,2, the L7-branes (corresponding to k=3) also break the supersymmetries of M(atrix) theory. The extra potentials are introduced such that the energy of a static L7-brane solution becomes finite in the large N limit where N represents the matrix dimension of fuzzy CP^3. As a consequence, fluctuations from the L7-branes are suppressed, which effectively describes compactification of M(atrix) theory down to 7 dimensions. We show that one of the extra potentials can be considered as a matrix-valued 7-form. The presence of the 7-form in turn supports a possibility of Freund-Rubin type compactification. This suggests that our modification of M(atrix) theory can also lead to a physically interesting matrix model in four dimensions. In hope of such a possibility, we further consider compactification of M(atrix) theory down to fuzzy S^4 which can be defined in terms of fuzzy CP^3. Along the way, we also find a new L5-brane solution to M(atrix) theory which has purely spherical geometry in the transverse directions.
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