F and M Theories as Gauge Theories of Area Preserving Algebra

TL;DR

This paper reformulates F and M theories as gauge theories based on area preserving algebra, providing a new perspective on their fundamental structure and relation to brane formulations.

Contribution

It introduces a novel gauge theory framework for F and M theories, emphasizing 1-brane formulations over traditional 0-brane or -1-brane models.

Findings

M theory is shown to be a 1-brane formulation rather than 0-brane.

F theory is demonstrated as a 1-brane formulation instead of -1-brane.

The approach offers a new gauge-theoretic perspective on these theories.

Abstract

F theory and M theory are formulated as gauge theories of area preserving diffeomorphism algebra. Our M theory is shown to be 1-brane formulation rather than 0-brane formulation of M theory of Banks, Fischler, Shenker and Susskind and the F theory is shown to be 1-brane formulation rather than -1-brane formulation of type IIB matrix theory of Ishibashi, Kawai, Kitazawa and Tsuchiya.