The M5-brane Hamiltonian

May, 1998
17 pages
Published in:
  • Nucl.Phys.B 533 (1998) 303-316
e-Print:
Report number:
  • UG-11-98

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Abstract:
We obtain the Hamiltonian form of the worldvolume action for the M5-brane in a general D=11 supergravity background. We use this result to obtain a new version of the covariant M5-brane Lagrangian in which the tension appears as a dynamical variable, although this Lagrangian has some unsatisfactory features which we trace to peculiarities of the null limit. We also show that the M5-brane action is invariant under all (super)isometries of the background.
Note:
  • Latex 18 pp Report-no: UG-11/98
  • 11.17.+y
  • 11.30.Pb
  • M-branes
  • Kappa symmetry
  • Superspace
  • Hamiltonian formulation
  • M-theory
  • membrane model: p-brane
  • p-brane: 5
  • supergravity: background field
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