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.
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