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Superembeddings, Non-Linear Supersymmetry and 5-branes

High Energy Physics - Theory 2009-10-30 v1

Abstract

We examine general properties of superembeddings, i.e., embeddings of supermanifolds into supermanifolds. The connection between an embedding procedure and the method of non-linearly realised supersymmetry is clarified, and we demonstrate how the latter arises as a special case of the former. As an illustration, the super-5-brane in 7 dimensions, containing a self-dual 3-form world-volume field strength, is formulated in both languages, and provides an example of a model where the embedding condition does not suffice to put the theory on-shell.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/9711203,
  title  = {Superembeddings, Non-Linear Supersymmetry and 5-branes},
  author = {Tom Adawi and Martin Cederwall and Ulf Gran and Magnus Holm and Bengt E. W. Nilsson},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/9711203},
  year   = {2009}
}

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plain tex, 28 pp