Central charges for the double coset

A bstract The state space of excited giant graviton brane systems is given by the Gauss graph operators. After restricting to the su (2|3) sector of the theory, we consider this state space. Our main result is the decomposition of this state space into irreducible representations of the su (2|2) ⋉ ℝ global symmetry. Excitations of the giant graviton branes are charged under a central extension of the global symmetry. The central extension generates gauge transformations so that the action of the central extension vanishes on physical states. Indeed, we explicitly demonstrate that the central charge is set to zero by the Gauss Law of the brane world volume gauge theory.