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On Brane Actions and Superembeddings

High Energy Physics - Theory 2009-10-31 v1

Abstract

Actions for branes, with or without worldsurface gauge fields, are discussed in a unified framework. A simple algorithm is given for constructing the component Green-Schwarz actions. Superspace actions are also discussed. Three examples are given to illustrate the general procedure: the membrane in D=11 and the D2-brane, which both have on-shell worldsurface supermultiplets, and the membrane in D=4, which has an off-shell multiplet.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/9804051,
  title  = {On Brane Actions and Superembeddings},
  author = {P. S. Howe and O. Raetzel and E. Sezgin},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/9804051},
  year   = {2009}
}

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19 pages, latex