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$(p+2)$-form gauge fields for $p$-brane through an action-at-a-distance

High Energy Physics - Theory 2007-05-23 v1

Abstract

In the conventional pp-brane theory, a gauge (p+1p+1)-form field ϕ(p+1)\phi^{(p+1)} mediates the interaction between pp-branes, which is gauge invariant in the sense ϕ(p+1)ϕ(p+1)+dΛ(p)\phi^{(p+1)}\to \phi^{(p+1)}+d\Lambda^{(p)} with Λ(p)\Lambda^{(p)}, an arbitrary pp-form and dd, a boundary operator. We, on the contrary, propose to introduce a new gauge field ϕ(p+2)\phi^{(p+2)} mediating the interaction, and we have a new type of gauge transformation: ϕ(p+2)ϕ(p+2)+δΛ(p+3)\phi^{(p+2)}\to \phi^{(p+2)} +\delta\Lambda^{(p+3)}, with δ\delta, a coboundary operator.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/9712234,
  title  = {$(p+2)$-form gauge fields for $p$-brane through an action-at-a-distance},
  author = {T. Miyazaki and C. Ohzeki and M. Yamanobe},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/9712234},
  year   = {2007}
}

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