2003Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology/Physical review. D. Particles and fieldsOpen access

Ground state of the supermembrane on appwave

Noriko Nakayama, Katsuyuki Sugiyama, Kentaroh Yoshida

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We consider the ground state of a supermembrane on the maximally supersymmetric pp-wave background by using the quantum-mechanical procedure of de Wit, Hoppe, and Nicolai. On the pp-wave background the ground state has a nontrivial structure even in the zero-mode Hamiltonian. The supergravity multiplet in flat space comes to split with a certain energy difference. We explicitly derive the supersymmetric ground-state wave function for the zero-mode Hamiltonian, which is obviously normalizable. Moreover, we discuss the nonzero-mode Hamiltonian and construct an example of the ground-state wave function with the truncation of variables, whose ${L}^{2}$ norm can be represented by an asymptotic series.

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We consider the ground state of a supermembrane on the maximally supersymmetric pp-wave background by using the quantum-mechanical procedure of de Wit, Hoppe, and Nicolai. On the pp-wave background the ground state has a nontrivial structure even in the zero-mode Hamiltonian. The supergravity multiplet in flat space comes to split with a certain energy difference. We explicitly derive the supersymmetric ground-state wave function for the zero-mode Hamiltonian, which is obviously normalizable. Moreover, we discuss the nonzero-mode Hamiltonian and construct an example of the ground-state wave function with the truncation of variables, whose ${L}^{2}$ norm can be represented by an asymptotic series.

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We consider the ground state of a supermembrane on the maximally supersymmetric pp-wave background by using the quantum-mechanical procedure of de Wit, Hoppe, and Nicolai. On the pp-wave background the ground state has a nontrivial structure even in the zero-mode Hamiltonian. The supergravity multiplet in flat space comes to split with a certain energy difference. We explicitly derive the supersymmetric ground-state wave function for the zero-mode Hamiltonian, which is obviously normalizable. Moreover, we discuss the nonzero-mode Hamiltonian and construct an example of the ground-state wave function with the truncation of variables, whose ${L}^{2}$ norm can be represented by an asymptotic series.

Key concepts: Ground state, Hamiltonian (control theory), Wave function, Physics, Mathematical physics, Multiplet, Quantum mechanics, Zero mode

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