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On the Massless Excitations of the 11d Supermembrane

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Superstrings

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In this talk I will describe some work done in collaboration with Rafael Nepomechie and Peter van Nieuwenhuizen.1 As K. Stelle at this conference outlined some general features of the supermembrane theory I will focus mostly on the special topic which we investigated — the existence of massless modes in the supermembrane.

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  1. Department of Physics, University of Miami, Coral Gables, Florida, 33124, USA

    L. Mezincescu

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  1. University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA

    Peter G. O. Freund

  2. University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado, USA

    K. T. Mahanthappa

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Mezincescu, L. (1988). On the Massless Excitations of the 11d Supermembrane. In: Freund, P.G.O., Mahanthappa, K.T. (eds) Superstrings. NATO ASI Series, vol 175. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-1015-0_27

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