{
  "id": "0711.0955",
  "version": "v2",
  "published": "2007-11-06T19:33:45.000Z",
  "updated": "2007-12-20T17:44:35.000Z",
  "title": "Gauge Symmetry and Supersymmetry of Multiple M2-Branes",
  "authors": [
    "Jonathan Bagger",
    "Neil Lambert"
  ],
  "comment": "15 pages",
  "journal": "Phys.Rev.D77:065008,2008",
  "doi": "10.1103/PhysRevD.77.065008",
  "categories": [
    "hep-th"
  ],
  "abstract": "In previous work we proposed a field theory model for multiple M2-branes based on an algebra with a totally antisymmetric triple product. In this paper we gauge a symmetry that arises from the algebra's triple product. We then construct a supersymmetric theory that is consistent with all the symmetries expected of a multiple M2-brane theory: 16 supersymmetries, conformal invariance, and an SO(8) R-symmetry that acts on the eight transverse scalars. The gauge field is not dynamical. The result is a new type of maximally supersymmetric gauge theory in three dimensions.",
  "revisions": [
    {
      "version": "v2",
      "updated": "2007-12-20T17:44:35.000Z"
    }
  ],
  "analyses": {
    "subjects": [
      "04.65.+e",
      "04.50.-h",
      "11.25.Hf"
    ],
    "keywords": [
      "gauge symmetry",
      "supersymmetry",
      "algebras triple product",
      "totally antisymmetric triple product",
      "multiple m2-brane theory"
    ],
    "tags": [
      "journal article",
      "famous paper"
    ],
    "publication": {
      "publisher": "APS",
      "journal": "Physical Review D",
      "year": 2008,
      "month": "Mar",
      "volume": 77,
      "number": 6,
      "pages": "065008"
    },
    "note": {
      "typesetting": "TeX",
      "pages": 15,
      "language": "en",
      "license": "arXiv",
      "status": "editable",
      "inspire": 766872,
      "adsabs": "2008PhRvD..77f5008B"
    }
  }
}