From supermembrane to super Yang-Mills theory

Abstract

We derive p+1-dimensional (p=1,2) maximally supersymmetric U(N) Yang-Mills theory from the wrapped supermembrane on $R^{11-p}\times T^{p}$ in the light-cone gauge by using the matrix regularization. The elements of the matrices in the super Yang-Mills theory are given by the Fourier coefficients in the supermembrane theory. Although our approach never refers to both D-branes and superstring dualities, we obtain the relations which exactly represent T-duality.