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On Zero-Mass Ground States in Super-Membrane Matrix Models

1998; Springer Science+Business Media; Volume: 191; Issue: 3 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1007/s002200050280

1432-0916

Jürg Fröhlich, Jens Hoppe,

Quantum Information and Cryptography

We recall a formulation of super-membrane theory in terms of certain matrix models. These models are known to have a mass spectrum given by the positive half-axis. We show that, for the simplest such matrix model, a normalizable zero-mass ground state does _n_o_t exist.