  The spectrum of the bosonic sector of the D=11 supermembrane with central
charges is shown to be discrete and with finite multiplicities, hence
containing a mass gap. The result extends to the exact theory our previous
proof of the similar property for the SU(N) regularised model and strongly
suggest discreteness of the spectrum for the complete Hamiltonian of the
supermembrane with central charges. This theory is a quantum equivalent to a
symplectic non-commutative super-Yang-Mills in 2+1 dimensions, where the
space-like sector is a Riemann surface of positive genus. In this context, it
is argued how the theory in 4D exhibits confinement in the N=1 supermembrane
with central charges phase and how the theory enters in the quark-gluon plasma
phase through the spontaneous breaking of the centre. This phase is interpreted
in terms of the compactified supermembrane without central charges.
