On world-volume supersymmetry of supermembrane action in static gauge

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Main Authors: Tseytlin, Arkady A., Wang, Zihan
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author Tseytlin, Arkady A.
Wang, Zihan
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Wang, Zihan
contents We review and elaborate on the issue of 3d world volume supersymmetry that appears as a residual part of global target space supersymmetry in the BST supermembrane action. While there is no direct ``spinning membrane'' analog of the world-volume supersymmetric spinning string action that could be obtained by coupling $D$ copies of 3d scalar multiplet to 3d supergravity, we discuss how one may construct an $N=1$ 3d supersymmetric analog of the derivative expansion of the bosonic membrane action in static gauge. We compare the resulting $N=1$ supersymmetric action for eight 3d scalar multiplets to the $N=8$ 3d supersymmetric action describing the $D=11$ supermembrane in the static gauge. The two actions are not equivalent which is related to the fact that the full $N=8$ supersymmetry of the static-gauge $D=11$ supermembrane action can be realised only if the fermions are described by an $SO(8)$ spinor rather than vector. The two actions are still directly related in special dimensions $D=4$ and 5. We also compute the one-loop world-volume scattering amplitudes for the two theories, finding that they indeed agree for $D=4,5$ but disagree for $D=11$.
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spellingShingle On world-volume supersymmetry of supermembrane action in static gauge
Tseytlin, Arkady A.
Wang, Zihan
High Energy Physics - Theory
We review and elaborate on the issue of 3d world volume supersymmetry that appears as a residual part of global target space supersymmetry in the BST supermembrane action. While there is no direct ``spinning membrane'' analog of the world-volume supersymmetric spinning string action that could be obtained by coupling $D$ copies of 3d scalar multiplet to 3d supergravity, we discuss how one may construct an $N=1$ 3d supersymmetric analog of the derivative expansion of the bosonic membrane action in static gauge. We compare the resulting $N=1$ supersymmetric action for eight 3d scalar multiplets to the $N=8$ 3d supersymmetric action describing the $D=11$ supermembrane in the static gauge. The two actions are not equivalent which is related to the fact that the full $N=8$ supersymmetry of the static-gauge $D=11$ supermembrane action can be realised only if the fermions are described by an $SO(8)$ spinor rather than vector. The two actions are still directly related in special dimensions $D=4$ and 5. We also compute the one-loop world-volume scattering amplitudes for the two theories, finding that they indeed agree for $D=4,5$ but disagree for $D=11$.
title On world-volume supersymmetry of supermembrane action in static gauge
topic High Energy Physics - Theory
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.04948