The M2-brane has two spatial dimensions and couples electrically to the supergravity three-form. Its supersymmetric worldvolume description is the supermembrane.
The transverse harmonic function solves the field equations away from membrane sources. Positive centres contribute in eight dimensions. Its Killing spinors are with one oriented membrane projector, giving sixteen supersymmetries. The three-form's sign and membrane orientation must be chosen together.
For , changing radial coordinate to gives an AdS metric of radius times a round sphere of radius . The Freund-Rubin compactification flux has magnitude in the AdS volume form. This is the regular positive-charge membrane throat, rather than the limit of an arbitrary singular harmonic multipole.
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For and , choose . A parallel probe then has in the supermembrane action, so its induced-volume term and potential term add to a position-independent constant. This proves the cancellation without a weak-field approximation. An oppositely charged probe has no such cancellation.
The supersymmetric M2-brane worldvolume theory includes embedding bosons and fermions and has kappa symmetry. In eleven dimensions its fermionic embedding coordinate is a thirty-two-component Majorana spinor.
The first term uses the induced worldvolume metric from the supervielbein; the second is the Wess-Zumino brane coupling to the super-three-form. Its fermionic dependence is retained before bosonic truncation. The relative charge magnitude equals the brane tension, while sets the orientation and matching kappa symmetry projector sign. In an on-shell eleven-dimensional supergravity superspace, this action has kappa symmetry.

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In string theory and related theories of high energy physics, an **M2-brane** is a type of membrane that is a fundamental object in the context of M-theory, an 11-dimensional extension of string theory. Specifically, M2-branes are two-dimensional surfaces (or "membranes") that can exist in an 11-dimensional spacetime.