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Norcor vs the Abominable Gauge Completion

High Energy Physics - Theory 2009-10-31 v2

Abstract

We use normal coordinate methods to obtain the expansion with respect to fermionic coordinates of the 11-dimensional supermembrane action in a supergravity background. Likewise, expansions for various branes in other dimensions can be obtained. These methods allow a systematic and unambiguous expansion of the vielbein to any order in the fermionic coordinates and avoid the complications encountered in the gauge completion approach.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/0011173,
  title  = {Norcor vs the Abominable Gauge Completion},
  author = {Marcus T. Grisaru and Marcia E. Knutt},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/0011173},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

15 pages, Latex. One reference added and more explicit form given for fourth-order expansion of last section