Boundary Conditions for Interacting Membranes
David S. Berman, Malcolm J.Perry, Ergin Sezgin, Daniel C. Thompson
TL;DR
This paper explores supersymmetric boundary conditions in membrane theories, revealing new boundary conditions related to fivebranes, ninebranes, and M-theory waves, and explaining supersymmetry enhancement in ABJM theory.
Contribution
It introduces novel boundary conditions in Bagger-Lambert and ABJM theories, including those related to fivebranes, ninebranes, and gauge anomaly cancellation.
Findings
Boundary conditions associated with fivebrane, ninebrane, and M-theory wave.
Understanding supersymmetry enhancement to (4,4) in ABJM theory.
Boundary conditions that cancel gauge anomalies in Chern-Simons terms.
Abstract
We investigate supersymmetric boundary conditions in both the Bagger-Lambert and the ABJM theories of interacting membranes. We find boundary conditions associated to the fivebrane, the ninebrane and the M-theory wave. For the ABJM theory we are able to understand the enhancement of supersymmetry to produce the (4,4) supersymmetry of the self-dual string. We also include supersymmetric boundary conditions on the gauge fields that cancel the classical gauge anomaly of the Chern-Simons terms.
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