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Super D-branes

High Energy Physics - Theory 2009-10-30 v3

Abstract

We present a manifestly Lorentz invariant, spacetime supersymmetric, and `κ\kappa-invariant' worldvolume action for all type II Dirichlet p-branes, p9p\le9, in a general type II supergravity background, including massive backgrounds in the IIA case. The p=0,2p=0,2 cases are rederived from D=11. The p=9p=9 case provides a supersymmetrization of the D=10 Born-Infeld action.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/9611173,
  title  = {Super D-branes},
  author = {E. Bergshoeff and P. K. Townsend},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/9611173},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

27pp. Typos corrected. To appear in Nucl. Phys. B