Brane Rotating Symmetries and the Fivebrane Equations of Motion
High Energy Physics - Theory
2009-10-31 v1
Abstract
We show that the fully covariant equations of motion for the M-theory fivebrane can be interpreted as charge conservation equations. The associated charges induce `shift'-symmetries of the scalar, spinor and gauge-fields of the fivebrane, so allowing an interpretation of all these fields as Goldstone fields. We also find that the fivebrane possesses a new symmetry that is part of the GL(32) automorphism group of the eleven dimensional supersymmetry algebra.
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@article{arxiv.hep-th/9912226,
title = {Brane Rotating Symmetries and the Fivebrane Equations of Motion},
author = {O. Baerwald and P. West},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/9912226},
year = {2009}
}
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15 pages, latex