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arxiv: 1208.1232 · v3 · pith:EMQBLDLNnew · submitted 2012-08-06 · ✦ hep-th

SL(5) duality from canonical M2-brane

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keywords dualitym2-branebackgroundcanonicalconstraintsdiffeomorphismgeneralizedhamiltonian
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We show how the SL(5) duality in M-theory is explained from a canonical analysis of M2-brane mechanics. Diffeomorphism constraints for a M2-brane coupled to supergravity background in d=4 are reformulated in a SL(5) covariant form, in which spatial diffeomorphism constraints are recast into a SL(5) vector and the generalized metric in the Hamiltonian constraint is quartic in the SL(5) generalized vielbein. The Hamiltonian for a M2 brane has the SL(5) duality symmetry in a background dependent gauge.

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