Chern-Simons Forms, Mickelsson-Faddeev Algebras and the P-Branes
High Energy Physics - Theory
2008-11-26 v2
Abstract
In string theory, nilpotence of the BRS operator for the string functional relates the Chern-Simons term in the gauge-invariant antisymmetric tensor field strength to the central term in the Kac-Moody algebra. We generalize these ideas to p-branes with odd p and find that the Kac-Moody algebra for the string becomes the Mickelsson-Faddeev algebra for the p-brane.
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@article{arxiv.hep-th/9205099,
title = {Chern-Simons Forms, Mickelsson-Faddeev Algebras and the P-Branes},
author = {J. A. Dixon and M. J. Duff},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/9205099},
year = {2008}
}
Comments
11 pages, CTP-TAMU-45-92, (Correction of some minor sign errors and typos)