Dirichlet branes of the covariant open supermembrane in AdS4×S7 and AdS7×S4 Original Research Article

We discuss an open supermembrane theory in the AdS4×S7 and AdS7×S4 backgrounds. The possible Dirichlet branes of an open supermembrane are classified by analyzing the covariant Wess–Zumino term. All of the allowed configurations are related to those on the pp-wave background via the Penrose limit.