Charged open membrane solution on a manifold with a boundary Original Research Article

Explicit open single and multi-membrane solutions of the low energy limit of M-theory on the orbifold R10 × S1/Z2 are presented. This low energy action is described by an 11-dimensional supergravity action coupled to two E8 super-Yang-Mills fields, which propagate only on the 10-dimensional boundaries of the target space. The membrane solutions we construct preserve half the supersymmetries. They carry electric charge and current with respect to the gauge fields, whose generators are in the Cartan subalgebra of the two E8 gauge groups present at the boundaries.