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arxiv: hep-th/0209081 · v2 · submitted 2002-09-10 · ✦ hep-th

Ground State of Supermembrane on PP-wave

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keywords pp-wavegroundhamiltonianstatesupersymmetriccaseconstructfunction
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We consider the ground state of supermembrane on the maximally supersymmetric pp-wave background by using the quantum-mechanical procedure of de Wit-Hoppe-Nicolai. In the pp-wave case the ground state has non-trivial structure even in the zero-mode Hamiltonian, which is identical with that of superparticles on the pp-wave and resembles supersymmetric harmonic oscillators. The supergravity multiplet in the flat case is splitting with a certain energy difference. We explicitly construct the unique supersymmetric ground-state wave function of the zero-mode Hamiltonian, which is obviously normalizable. Moreover, we discuss the nonzero-mode Hamiltonian and construct an example for the ground-state wave function with a truncation of the variables. This special solution seems non-normalizable but its L^2-norm can be represented by an asymptotic series.

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