The discrete spectrum of the D=11 bosonic M5-brane

TL;DR

This paper proves that the spectrum of the regularized D=11 bosonic M5-brane is discrete and unbounded, extending to infinity, and generalizes this result to other bosonic p-branes.

Contribution

It provides a rigorous proof that the spectra of regularized bosonic M5-branes and p-branes are discrete and unbounded, a significant step in understanding their quantum properties.

Findings

Spectrum of the D=11 bosonic M5-brane is discrete and extends to infinity.

The result applies to regularized bosonic p-branes in general.

The proof advances the mathematical understanding of brane spectra.

Abstract

We prove that the spectrum of the regularized M5-brane in D=11 target space is discrete with eigenvalues extending to infinity. The proof includes the same result for the spectra of regularized bosonic p-branes in general.