Boundary Conditions for Interacting Membranes

Understand

We investigate supersymmetric boundary conditions in both the Bagger-Lambert and the ABJM theories of interacting membranes.

• We find boundary conditions associated to the fivebrane, the ninebrane and the M-theory wave.
• For the ABJM theory we are able to understand the enhancement of supersymmetry to produce the (4,4) supersymmetry of the self-dual string.
• We also include supersymmetric boundary conditions on the gauge fields that cancel the classical gauge anomaly of the Chern-Simons terms.