Covariant action for a D = 11 five-brane with the chiral field

Jan, 1997
10 pages
Published in:
  • Phys.Lett.B 398 (1997) 41-46
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Report number:
  • DFPD-97-TH-1

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Abstract:
We propose a complete Born-Infeld-like action for a bosonic 5-brane with the worldvolume chiral field in a background of gravitational and antisymmetric gauge fields of D=11 supergravity. When the five-brane couples to a three-rank antisymmetric gauge field local worldvolume symmetries of the five-brane require the addition to the action of an appropriate Wess-Zumino term. To preserve general coordinate and Lorentz invariance of the model we introduce a single auxiliary scalar field. The auxiliary field can be eliminated by gauge fixing a corresponding local symmetry at the price of the loss of manifest d=6 worldvolume covariance. The double dimensional reduction of the five-brane model results in the Born-Infeld action with the Wess-Zumino term for a D=10 four-D-brane.
Note:
  • LaTeX file, 9 pages Report-no: DFPD 97/TH/1
  • 11.15-q
  • 11.17+y
  • P-branes
  • Duality
  • Supergravity
  • membrane model: p-brane
  • p-brane: 5
  • dimension: 11
  • field theory: action
  • gauge field theory: tensor