A Note on the Stability of Quantum Supermembranes
| dc.creator | Kaku, Michio | |
| dc.date | 1996-07-14 | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2026-07-07T04:22:15Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2026-07-07T04:22:15Z | |
| dc.description | We re-examine the question of the stability of quantum supermembranes. In the past, the instability of supermembranes was established by using a regulator, i.e. approximating the membrane by SU(N) super Yang-Mills theory and letting $N \rightarrow \infty$. In this paper, we (a) show that the instability persists even if we directly examine the continuum theory (b) give heuristic arguments that even a theory of unstable membranes at the Planck length may still be compatible with experiment (c) resolve a certain puzzling discrepancy between earlier works on the stability of supermembranes. Presented at the 2nd International Sakharov Conference in Moscow, May 1996. | |
| dc.description | 4 pages; requires sprocl.sty (World Scientific) | |
| dc.identifier | https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9607111 | |
| dc.identifier | http://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9607111 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/54646 | |
| dc.subject | High Energy Physics - Theory | |
| dc.title | A Note on the Stability of Quantum Supermembranes | |
| dc.type | text |