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Spacetime Scale-Invariance and the Super p-Brane

High Energy Physics - Theory 2010-04-06 v1

Abstract

We generalize to p-dimensional extended objects and type II superstrings a recently proposed Green-Schwarz type I superstring action in which the tension TT emerges as an integration constant of the equations of motion. The action is spacetime scale-invariant but its equations of motion are equivalent to those of the standard super p-brane for T0T\ne 0 and the null super p-brane for T=0T=0. We also show that for p=1p=1 the action can be written in ``Born-Infeld'' form.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/9206026,
  title  = {Spacetime Scale-Invariance and the Super p-Brane},
  author = {E. Bergshoeff and L. A. J London and P. K. Townsend},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/9206026},
  year   = {2010}
}

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14 pages (LATEX), UG-3/92

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