L-branes
Oct, 1998
22 pages
Published in:
- Class.Quant.Grav. 16 (1999) 705-722
e-Print:
- hep-th/9810081 [hep-th]
Report number:
- KCL-MTH-98-39,
- CTP-TAMU-34-98
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Abstract:
The superembedding approach to -branes is used to study a class of -branes which have linear multiplets on the worldvolume. We refer to these branes as L-branes. Although linear multiplets are related to scalar multiplets (with 4 or 8 supersymmetries) by dualising one of the scalars of the latter to a -form field strength, in many geometrical situations it is the linear multiplet version which arises naturally. Furthermore, in the case of 8 supersymmetries, the linear multiplet is off-shell in contrast to the scalar multiplet. The dynamics of the L-branes are obtained by using a systematic procedure for constructing the Green-Schwarz action from the superembedding formalism. This action has a Dirac-Born-Infeld type structure for the -form. In addition, a set of equations of motion is postulated directly in superspace, and is shown to agree with the Green-Schwarz equations of motion.- membrane model
- multiplet: linear
- embedding
- differential forms
- dimension: 7-9
- torsion
- Bianchi identity
- superspace
- field equations
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