A Note on topological brane theories

May, 2000
14 pages
Published in:
  • Phys.Rev.D 62 (2000) 066005
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Report number:
  • USITP-00-06

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Abstract:
We consider the theory of closed pp-branes propagating on (p+1)(p+1)-dimensional space-time manifolds. This theory has no local degrees of freedom. Here we study its canonical and BRST structures of the theory. In the case of locally flat backgrounds one can show that the pp-brane theory is related to another known topological field theory. In the general situation some equivalent actions can also be written for the topological pp-brane theory.
  • membrane model: p-brane
  • any-dimensional
  • field theory: topological
  • transformation: Becchi-Rouet-Stora
  • Hamiltonian formalism
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