Monads, strings, and M-theory
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- Title
- Monads, strings, and M-theory
- Authors
- Hofman, Christiaan; PARK, JAE SUK
- Date Issued
- 1998-06-01
- Publisher
- ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
- Abstract
- The recent developments in string theory suggest that the space-time coordinates should be generalized to non-commuting matrices. Postulating this suggestion as the fundamental geometrical principle, we formulate a candidate for covariant second quantized RNS superstrings as a topological field theory in two dimensions. Our construction is a natural non-Abelian extension of the RNS string. It also naturally leads to a model with manifest 11-dimensional covariance, which we conjecture to be a formulation of M-theory. The non-commuting space-time coordinates of the strings are further generalized to non-commuting anti-symmetric tensors. The usual space-time picture and the free superstrings appear only in certain special phases of the model. We derive a simple set of algebraic equations, which determine the moduli space of our model. We test some aspects of our conjectural M-theory for the case of compactification on T-2. (C) 1998 Elsevier Science B.V.
- URI
- https://oasis.postech.ac.kr/handle/2014.oak/98601
- DOI
- 10.1016/S0550-3213(98)00047-9
- ISSN
- 0550-3213
- Article Type
- Article
- Citation
- NUCLEAR PHYSICS B, vol. 520, no. 1-2, page. 229 - 260, 1998-06-01
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