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Quantization of p-branes, D-p-branes and M-branes

High Energy Physics - Theory 2009-10-30 v1

Abstract

Killing spinors of space-time BPS configurations play an important role in quantization of theories with the fermionic worldvolume local symmetry. We show here how it works for the GS superstring, BST supermembrane and M-5-brane. We show that the non-linear generalization of the (2,0) d=6 tensor supermultiplet action is the M-5-brane action in a Killing gauge. For D-p-branes the novel feature of quantization is that they can be quantized Lorentz covariantly, in particular, for D-0-brane a gauge exists where the action is covariant and free. We present a general condition on possible choice of gauges for the kappa-symmetric branes.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/9709202,
  title  = {Quantization of p-branes, D-p-branes and M-branes},
  author = {Renata Kallosh},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/9709202},
  year   = {2009}
}

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9 pages, Talk at STRINGS'97 Meeting, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 16-21 Jun 1997