Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Theory
Scientific paper
2003-06-05
Phys.Rev.D68:106001,2003
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Theory
28 pages
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevD.68.106001
We study the worldvolume supersymmetries of M2 branes in the maximally supersymmetric plane wave background of M theory. For certain embeddings the standard probe analysis indicates that the worldvolume theory has less than 16 supersymmetries. We show that at the quadratic level the worldvolume theory admits additional linearly realized supersymmetries, and that the spectra of the branes are organized into multiplets of these symmetries. We find however that these supersymmetries are not respected by worldvolume interactions. Our analysis was motivated by recent work showing that D-branes in the maximally supersymmetric plane wave background of IIB string theory admit supersymmetries beyond those of the probe analysis. The construction of the additional supercharges in this case was specific to a string worldsheet that is a strip and the present results suggest that string interactions do not preserve these symmetries.
Freedman Daniel Z.
Skenderis Kostas
Taylor Marika
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