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p-branes from (p-2)-branes in the Bosonic String Theory

High Energy Physics - Theory 2009-10-31 v2

Abstract

We show that Dirichlet p-brane can be expressed as a configuration of infinitely many Dirichlet (p-2)-branes in the bosonic string theory. Using this fact, we interpret the massless fields on the p-brane worldvolume as deformations of the configuration of the (p-2)-branes. Especially we find that the worldvolume gauge field parametrizes part of the group of diffeomorphisms on the worldvolume.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/9804163,
  title  = {p-branes from (p-2)-branes in the Bosonic String Theory},
  author = {Nobuyuki Ishibashi},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/9804163},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

16 pages, latex. The treatment of boundary interactions is corrected