Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Theory
Scientific paper
1998-05-12
Phys.Lett. B435 (1998) 312-318
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Theory
10 pages, uses PHYZZX, no figures, references added
Scientific paper
10.1016/S0370-2693(98)00811-9
We investigate whether DLCQ of M-theory can be defined as a limit of M-theory compactified on an almost light-like circle. This is of particular interest since the proofs of the matrix description of M-theory by Seiberg and Sen rely on this assumption. By the standard relation between M-theory on $S^1$ and IIA string theory, we translate this question into the corresponding one about the existence of the light-like limit of IIA superstring theory for any string coupling $g_s$. We argue that perturbative string loop amplitudes should have a finite and well-defined light-like limit provided the external momenta are chosen to correspond to a well-defined DLCQ set-up. On the non-perturbative side we consider states and amplitudes. We show that an appropriate class of non-perturbative states (wrapped D-branes) precisely have the right light-like limit. We give some indications that non-perturbative corrections to string amplitudes, too, may behave as required in the light-like limit. Having perturbative and non-perturbative evidence, this suggests that type IIA superstring theory as a whole has a well-defined light-like limit (for any string coupling $g_s$) and hence that the same is true for M-theory.
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