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D-Brane Actions with Local Kappa Symmetry

High Energy Physics - Theory 2009-10-30 v2

Abstract

We formulate world-volume actions that describe the dynamics of Dirichlet p-branes in a flat 10d background. The fields in these theories consist of the 10d superspace coordinates and an abelian world-volume gauge field. The global symmetries are given by the N=2A or N=2B super-Poincare group, according to whether p is even or odd. The local symmetries in the (p + 1)-dimensional world volume are general coordinate invariance and a fermionic kappa symmetry.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/9610249,
  title  = {D-Brane Actions with Local Kappa Symmetry},
  author = {Mina Aganagic and Costin Popescu and John H. Schwarz},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/9610249},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

9 pages, latex, no figures. A few misprints and minus signs have been corrected