The M5-brane Hamiltonian
High Energy Physics - Theory
2009-10-31 v1
Abstract
We obtain the Hamiltonian form of the worldvolume action for the M5-brane in a general D=11 supergravity background. We use this result to obtain a new version of the covariant M5-brane Lagrangian in which the tension appears as a dynamical variable, although this Lagrangian has some unsatisfactory features which we trace to peculiarities of the null limit. We also show that the M5-brane action is invariant under all (super)isometries of the background.
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@article{arxiv.hep-th/9805065,
title = {The M5-brane Hamiltonian},
author = {E. Bergshoeff and D. Sorokin and P. K. Townsend},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/9805065},
year = {2009}
}
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