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Metric-Independent Measures for Supersymmetric Extended Object Theories on Curved Backgrounds

High Energy Physics - Theory 2014-11-17 v1

Abstract

For Green-Schwarz superstring sigma-model on curved backgrounds, we introduce a non-metric measure ΦϵijϵIJ(iφI)(jφJ)\Phi \equiv \epsilon^{i j} \epsilon^{I J} (\partial_i \varphi^I) (\partial_j \varphi^J) with two scalars φI(I=1,2)\varphi^I (I = 1, 2) used in Two Measure Theory (TMT). As in the flat-background case, the string tension T=(2πα)1T= (2 \pi \alpha ' )^{-1} emerges as an integration constant for the A_i-field equation. This mechanism is further generalized to supermembrane theory, and to super p-brane theory, both on general curved backgrounds. This shows the universal applications of dynamical measure of TMT to general supersymmetric extended objects on general curved backgrounds.

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@article{arxiv.1411.3805,
  title  = {Metric-Independent Measures for Supersymmetric Extended Object Theories on Curved Backgrounds},
  author = {Hitoshi Nishino and Subhash Rajpoot},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1411.3805},
  year   = {2014}
}

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