String and Brane Tensions as Dynamical Degrees of Freedom
High Energy Physics - Theory
2011-09-27 v1
Abstract
We discuss a new class of string and p-brane models where the string/brane tension appears as an additional dynamical degree of freedom instead of being introduced by hand as an ad hoc dimensionfull scale. The latter property turns out to have a significant impact on the string/brane dynamics. The dynamical tension obeys Maxwell (or Yang-Mills) equations of motion (in the string case) or their rank p gauge theory analogues (in the p-brane case), which in particular triggers a simple classical mechanism of ("color") charge confinement.
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@article{arxiv.hep-th/0210062,
title = {String and Brane Tensions as Dynamical Degrees of Freedom},
author = {Eduardo Guendelman and Alexander Kaganovich and Emil Nissimov and Svetlana Pacheva},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/0210062},
year = {2011}
}
Comments
LaTeX-2e, 10 pages, to appear in the Proc. of the International School "Gravity, Astrophysics and Strings at the Black Sea", June 2002, Kiten, Bulgaria