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BPS conditions of supermembrane on the pp-wave

Katsuyuki Sugiyama, Kentaroh Yoshida

Physics Letters B · 2002 · 40 citations · 19 references

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We study the BPS conditions in the closed supermembranes on the maximally supersymmetric pp-wave background. In particular, the 1/2 and 1/4 BPS states are discussed in detail. Moreover, we comment on the zero-modes in the invariant mass formulae of the theory.

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