Chern-Simons forms, Mickelsson-Faddeev algebras and the p-branes
May, 19925 pages
Published in:
- Phys.Lett.B 296 (1992) 28-32
- Published: 1992
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- hep-th/9205099 [hep-th]
Report number:
- CTP-TAMU-45-92-REV,
- CTP-TAMU-45-92
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Abstract:
In string theory, nilpotence of the BRS operator \d for the string functional relates the Chern-Simons term in the gauge-invariant antisymmetric tensor field strength to the central term in the Kac-Moody algebra. We generalize these ideas to p-branes with odd p and find that the Kac-Moody algebra for the string becomes the Mickelsson-Faddeev algebra for the p-brane.Note:
- Revised version
- membrane model: p-brane
- loop space
- algebra: Kac-Moody
- transformation: Becchi-Rouet-Stora
- Chern-Simons term
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