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M. P. Garcia del Moral

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arXiv2026

On the large N convergence of matrix models

In this paper, the large N behavior of a supersymmetric matrix model is compared with its exact continuum description. We concentrate on the large N limit of a supersymmetric matrix model describing a supermembrane with central charge on a toroidally compactified target space. We analyze, on the one hand, the supermembrane model formulated on a differentiable compact torus without boundary, with structure group given by the area-preserving diffeomorphisms, and, on the other hand, the associated regularized $SU(N)$ model. We emphasize in our analysis the structure of the constraints of the regularized model, which generate the $SU(N)$ algebra and reproduce the area-preserving diffeomorphism algebra in the large N limit, together with the topological information associated with the central charge of the model. We explain the role of the central charge in the compactified supermembrane and how it allows a top-down $SU(N)$ regularization. It is known that the regularized model has discrete spectrum. We prove, in the semiclassical approximation of the models, that in the large N limit the eigenvalues of the Hamiltonian of the supersymmetric matrix model are in one to one correspondence with, and converge exactly to, the eigenvalues of the Hamiltonian of the supermembrane (M2-brane) with central charge. Finally, we discuss some physical consequences of this result.

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arXiv2025

Higher form symmetries, membranes and flux quantization

Higher Forms Symmetries (HFS) of a closed bosonic M2-brane theory formulated on a compactified target space $\mathcal{M}_9 \times T^2$ are obtained. We show that the cancellation of the 't Hooft anomaly present in the theory is related to a 3-form flux with $\mathcal{G}_1^{\nabla}$-gerbe structure associated to the world-volume flux quantization condition. A Wilson surface is naturally introduced on the topological operator that characterize the holonomy of the M2-brane. The projection of the flux quantization condition inherited from the gerbe structure onto the spatial part of the worldvolume, leads to a flux quantization on the M2-brane. The topological operators realise discrete symmetries associated with the winding and the flux/monopole condition. The algebra of operators is well defined.

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arXiv2023

Worldsheet description of a massive type IIA superstring in 10D

We construct, following \cite{mpgm14,mpgm17}, a massive M2-brane (supermembrane) as the limit of a genus two M2-brane that becomes a twice punctured Riemann surface with particular boundary conditions on the fields defined on the punctures. The target space is $M_9\times LCD$, where $LCD$ is a genus one light cone diagram. It contains mass terms and a topological term associated with the non-triviality of the target surface that, at low energies, can be associated with the presence of a cosmological constant. We show that the supergravity background of the M2-brane considered in this formulation requires the presence of M9-branes acting as sources. They correspond to the 11D uplift of the characteristic D8's of Romans supergravity. To this end, we explicitly show that some of the background singularities of the massive M2-brane can be reproduced by the M9-branes found by \cite{Bergshoeff}. This establishes a relation between the Romans mass and the moduli of the massive M2-brane. When dimensionally reduced, we obtain a worldsheet Hamiltonian of a N=2 type IIA closed superstring in 10D. We denote it \textit{massive} string. The corresponding \textit{massive} string inherits a non-vanishing constant term from the topological massive M2-brane that shifts the Hamiltonian. The non-vanishing parameter is related to the non-trivial structure of the massive M2-brane background and it can be related to the Romans mass term. It also contains a modified tension due to the non-trivial dependence on the moduli and on the punctures associated with the target torus.

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arXiv2023

Supersymmetric algebra of the massive supermembrane

In this paper, we obtain the explicit expression of the supersymmetric algebra associated with the recently proposed massive supermembrane including all surface terms. We formulate the theory as the limit of a supermembrane on a genus-two compact Riemann surface when one of the handles becomes a string attached to a torus. The formulation reduces to a supermembrane on a punctured torus with a "string spike" (in the sense of \cite{dwln}), attached to it. In this limit, we identify all surface terms of the algebra and give the explicit expression of the Hamiltonian in agreement with the previous formulation of it. The symmetry under area preserving diffeomorphisms, connected and nonconnected to the identity, is also discussed. Only parabolic $Sl(2,\mathbb{Z})$ discrete symmetries are preserved.

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arXiv2021

D2-brane with RR and NSNS fluxes and its dual M-theory origin

We obtain the bosonic D-brane description of toroidally compactified non-trivial M2-branes with the unique property of having a purely discrete supersymmetric regularized spectrum with finite multiplicity. As a byproduct, we generalize the previous Hamiltonian formulation to describe a M2-brane on a completely general constant quantized background $C_3$ denoted by us as CM2-brane. We show that under this condition, the theory is equivalent to a more restricted one, denoted as an M2-brane with $C_\pm$ fluxes, which has been shown to have good quantum behavior. As a result, the spectral properties of both sectors must be the same.We then obtain its bosonic D-brane description and discover new symmetries. We find that it contains a new symplectic gauge field in addition to the expected U(1) Dirac-Born-Infeld gauge symmetry and a nontrivial $U(1)$ associated with the presence of 2-form fluxes. Its bundle description takes on a new structure in the form of a twisted torus bundle. By turning off some of the fields, the D-brane description of other toroidally nontrivial M2-brane sectors can be obtained from this one. The possibility of reinterpreting these sectors in terms of Dp-brane bound states is discussed. These D-brane descriptions constitute String theory sectors with a quantum consistent uplift to M-theory.

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arXiv2021

The Massive Supermembrane on a Knot

We obtain the Hamiltonian formulation of the 11D Supermembrane theory non-trivially compactified on a twice-punctured torus times a 9D Minkowski space-time. It corresponds to a M2-brane formulated in 11D space with ten non-compact dimensions. The critical points like the poles and the zeros of the fields describing the embedding of the Supermembrane in the target space are treated rigorously. The non-trivial compactification generates non-trivial mass terms appearing in the bosonic potential, which dominate the full supersymmetric potential and should render the spectrum of the (regularized) Supermembrane discrete with finite multiplicity. The behaviour of the fields around the punctures generates a cosmological term in the Hamiltonian of the theory. The massive supermembrane can also be seen as a nontrivial uplift of a supermembrane torus bundle with parabolic monodromy in $M_9\times T^2$. The moduli of the theory is the one associated with the punctured torus, hence it keeps all the nontriviality of the torus moduli even after the decompactification process to ten noncompact dimensions. The formulation of the theory on a punctured torus bundle is characterized by the $(1,1)-Knots$ associated with the monodromies.

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arXiv2021

Existence of a Supersymmetric Massless Ground State of the $SU(N)$ Matrix Model globally on its Valleys

In this work we consider the existence and uniqueness of the ground state of the regularized Hamiltonian of the Supermembrane in dimensions $D= 4,\,5,\,7$ and 11, or equivalently the $SU(N)$ Matrix Model. That is, the 0+1 reduction of the 10-dimensional $SU(N)$ Super Yang-Mills Hamiltonian. This ground state problem is associated with the solutions of the inner and outer Dirichlet problems for this operator, and their subsequent smooth patching (glueing) into a single state. We have discussed properties of the inner problem in a previous work, therefore we now investigate the outer Dirichlet problem for the Hamiltonian operator. We establish existence and uniqueness on unbounded valleys defined in terms of the bosonic potential. These are precisely those regions where the bosonic part of the potential is less than a given value $V_0$, which we set to be arbitrary. The problem is well posed, since these valleys are preserved by the action of the $SU(N)$ constraint. We first show that their Lebesgue measure is finite, subject to restrictions on $D$ in terms of $N$. We then use this analysis to determine a bound on the fermionic potential which yields the coercive property of the energy form. It is from this, that we derive the existence and uniqueness of the solution. As a by-product of our argumentation, we show that the Hamiltonian, restricted to the valleys, has spectrum purely discrete with finite multiplicity. Remarkably, this is in contrast to the case of the unrestricted space, where it is well known that the spectrum comprises a continuous segment. We discuss the relation of our work with the general ground state problem and the question of confinement in models with strong interactions.

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arXiv2021

Relation between non trivial M2-branes and D2-branes with fluxes

We show the relation between three non trivial sectors of M2-brane theory formulated in the LCG connected among them by canonical transformations. These sectors correspond to the supermembrane theory formulated on a $M_9\times T^2$ on three different constant three-form backgrounds: M2-brane with constant $C_{-}$, M2-brane with constant $C_{\pm}$ and M2-brane with a generic constant $C_3$ denoted as CM2-brane. The first two exhibit a purely discrete supersymmetric spectrum once the central charge condition, or equivalently, the corresponding flux condition has been turned on. The CM2-brane is conjectured to share this spectral property once that fluxes $C_{\pm}$ are turned on. As shown in [1] they are duals to three inequivalent sectors of the D2-branes with specific worldvolume and background RR and NSNS quantization conditions on each case.

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arXiv2021

The M2-brane over the twisted torus with punctures

We present the formulation of the bosonic Hamiltonian M2-brane compactified on a twice punctured torus following the procedure proposed in \cite{mpgm14}. In this work we analyse two possible metric choice, different from the one used in \cite{mpgm14}, over the target space and study some of the properties of the corresponding Hamiltonian.

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arXiv2020

Fluxes, Twisted tori, Monodromy and $U(1)$ Supermembranes

We show that the $D=11$ Supermembrane theory (M2-brane) compactified on a $M_9 \times T^2$ target space, with constant fluxes $C_{\pm}$ naturally incorporates the geometrical structure of a twisted torus. We extend the M2-brane theory to a formulation on a twisted torus bundle. It is consistently fibered over the world volume of the M2-brane. It can also be interpreted as a torus bundle with a nontrivial $U(1)$ connection associated to the fluxes. The structure group $G$ is the area preserving diffeomorphisms. The torus bundle is defined in terms of the monodromy associated to the isotopy classes of symplectomorphisms with $π_{0} (G) = SL(2,Z)$, and classified by the coinvariants of the subgroups of $SL(2,Z)$. The spectrum of the theory is purely discrete since the constant flux induces a central charge on the supersymmetric algebra and a modification on the Hamiltonian which renders the spectrum discrete with finite multiplicity. The theory is invariant under symplectomorphisms connected and non connected to the identity, a result relevant to guaranteed the U-dual invariance of the theory. The Hamiltonian of the theory exhibits interesting new $U(1)$ gauge and global symmetries on the worldvolume induced by the symplectomorphim transformations. We construct explicitly the supersymmetric algebra with nontrivial central charges. We show that the zero modes decouple from the nonzero ones. The nonzero mode algebra corresponds to a massive superalgebra that preserves either $1/2$ or $1/4$ of the original supersymmetry depending on the state considered.

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arXiv2019

M2-branes on a constant flux background

We describe a compactified Supermembrane, or M2-brane, with 2-form fluxes generated by constant three-forms that are turned on a 2-torus of the target space $M_9\times T^2$. We compare this theory with the one describing a $11D$ M2-brane formulated on $M_9\times T^2$ target space subject to an irreducible wrapping condition. We show that the flux generated by the bosonic 3-form under consideration is in a one to one correspondence to the irreducible wrapping condition. After a canonical transformation both Hamiltonians are exactly the same up to a constant shift in one particular case. Consequently both of them, share the same spectral properties. We conclude that the Hamiltonian of the M2-brane with 2-form target space fluxes on a torus has a purely discrete spectrum with eigenvalues of finite multiplicity and it can be considered to describe a new sector of the microscopic degrees of freedom of M-theory. We also show that the total membrane momentum in the direction associated to the flux condition acquires a quantized contribution in correspondence to the flux units that have been turned on.

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arXiv2018

Measure of the potential valleys of the supermembrane theory

We analyse the measure of the regularized matrix model of the supersymmetric potential valleys, $Ω$, of the Hamiltonian of non zero modes of supermembrane theory. This is the same as the Hamiltonian of the BFSS matrix model. We find sufficient conditions for this measure to be finite, in terms the spacetime dimension. For $SU(2)$ we show that the measure of $Ω$ is finite for the regularized supermembrane matrix model when the transverse dimensions in the light cone gauge $\mathrm{D}\geq 5$. This covers the important case of seven and eleven dimensional supermembrane theories, and implies the compact embedding of the Sobolev space $H^{1,2}(Ω)$ onto $L^2(Ω)$. The latter is a main step towards the confirmation of the existence and uniqueness of ground state solutions of the outer Dirichlet problem for the Hamiltonian of the $SU(N)$ regularized $\mathrm{D}=11$ supermembrane, and might eventually allow patching with the inner solutions.

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arXiv2017

On global aspects of duality invariant theories: M2-brane vs DFT

Supermembrane compactified on a $M_9\times T^2$ target space is globally described by the inequivalent classes of torus bundles over torus. These torus bundles have monodromy in $SL(2,Z)$ when they correspond to the nontrivial central charge sector and they are trivial otherwise. The first ones contain eight inequivalent classes of M2-brane bundles which at low energies, are in correspondence with the eight type II gauged supergravities in $9D$. The relation among them is completely determined by the global action of T-duality which interchanges topological invariants of the two tori. The M2-brane torus bundles are invariant under $SL(2,Z)\times SL(2,Z) \times Z_2$. From the effective point of view, there is another dual invariant theory, called Double Field Theory which describe invariant actions under $O(D,D)$. Globally it is formulated in terms of doubled $2D$ torus fibrations over the spacetime with a monodromy given by $O(D,D,Z)$. In this note we discuss T-duality global aspects considered in both theories and we emphasize certain similarities between both approaches which could give some hints towards a deeper relationship between them.

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arXiv2016

The ground state of the D=11 supermembrane and matrix models on compact regions

We establish a general framework for the analysis of boundary value problems of matrix models at zero energy on compact regions. We derive existence and uniqueness of ground state wavefunctions for the mass operator of the $D=11$ regularized supermembrane theory, that is the $\mathcal{N}=16$ supersymmetric $SU(N)$ matrix model, on balls of finite radius. Our results rely on the structure of the associated Dirichlet form and a factorization in terms of the supersymmetric charges. They also rely on the polynomial structure of the potential and various other supersymmetric properties of the system.

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arXiv2015

Massless ground state for a compact SU(2) matrix model in 4D

We show the existence and uniqueness of a massless supersymmetric ground state wavefunction of a SU(2) matrix model in a bounded smooth domain with Dirichlet boundary conditions. This is a gauge system and we provide a new framework to analyze the quantum spectral properties of this class of supersymmetric matrix models subject to constraints which can be generalized for arbitrary number of colors.

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arXiv2015

Aspects of the T-duality construction for the Supermembrane theory

In this note we explicitly show how the generalization of the T-duality symmetry of the supermembrane theory compactified in M9xT2 can be reduced to a parabolic subgroup of SL(2,Z) that acts non-linearly on the moduli parameters and on the KK and winding charges of the supermembrane. This is a first step towards a deeper understanding of the dual relation between the parabolic type II gauged supergravity in nine dimensions.

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arXiv2015

Arguments towards the construction of a matrix model groundstate

We discuss the existence and uniqueness of wavefunctions for inhomogenoeus boundary value problems associated to x^2y^2-type matrix model on a bounded domain of R^2. Both properties involve a combination of the Cauchy-Kovalewski Theorem and a explicit calculations.

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arXiv2015

On the groundstate of octonionic matrix models in a ball

In this work we examine the existence and uniqueness of the groundstate of a SU(N)x G2 octonionic matrix model on a bounded domain of R^N. The existence and uniqueness argument of the groundstate wavefunction follows from the Lax-Milgram theorem. Uniqueness is shown by means of an explicit argument which is drafted in some detail.

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