Brane-wave Duality
High Energy Physics - Theory
2007-05-23 v2 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
Abstract
The quantum mechanical transition between a free particle Lagrangian and the Klein Gordon field description of a free particle (particle wave duality) is conjectured to extend to an analogous construction of relativistically invariant wave equations associated with strings and branes, which we propose to call brane-wave duality. Electromagnetic interactions in the two systems are discussed. It is emphasised that all integrable free field theories, including those of Dirac-Born-Infeld type, are associated with Lagrangians equivalent to divergences on the space of solutions of the equations of motion.
Cite
@article{arxiv.hep-th/9908157,
title = {Brane-wave Duality},
author = {L. M. Baker and D. B. Fairlie},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/9908157},
year = {2007}
}
Comments
14 pages, latex, no figures. Clarification of the type of Lagrangians used; references added