Ghost-Free Superconformal Action for Multiple M2-Branes

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2008-05-31

arxiv.org/abs/0806.0054v2

JHEP 0807:117,2008

Physics

High Energy Physics

High Energy Physics - Theory

11 pages; v2: minor clarifications and mention of subsequent work

Scientific paper

10.1088/1126-6708/2008/07/117

The Bagger--Lambert construction of 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 N = 8 super Yang--Mills theories.

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