The discrete spectrum of the D=11 bosonic M5-brane
arXiv:0705.3692 · doi:10.1016/j.nuclphysb.2007.11.012
Abstract
We prove that the spectrum of the regularized M5-brane in D=11 target space is discrete with eigenvalues extending to infinity. The proof includes the same result for the spectra of regularized bosonic p-branes in general.
13 pages, no figures. References have been added, typos corrected, formulae have been simplified and proof of main claim has been improved