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On the WKB quantum equivalence between diverse p-brane actions

High Energy Physics - Theory 2010-04-06 v2

Abstract

We consider an action for a closed, bosonic, p-brane, where the brane tension is not an assigned parameter but rather it is induced by a maximal rank gauge p-form. This model is classically equivalent to the Nambu--Goto/Howe-Tucker model. We investigate how this classical equivalence can be implemented in the path integral framework. For this purpose we adopt a ``first order'' integration procedure over gauge p-forms and a ``shortened'' Fadeev-Popov procedure.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/0005132,
  title  = {On the WKB quantum equivalence between diverse p-brane actions},
  author = {S. Ansoldi and C. Castro and E. Spallucci},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/0005132},
  year   = {2010}
}

Comments

11 pages, Revtex, no figures, final version to appear in Class.& Q.Grav.; Title slightly changed, added disussions and references