SPACETIME SCALE-INVARIANCE AND THE SUPER P-BRANE

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作者
BERGSHOEFF, E [1 ]
LONDON, LAJ [1 ]
TOWNSEND, PK [1 ]
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[1] UNIV CAMBRIDGE,DAMTP,CAMBRIDGE,ENGLAND
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10.1088/0264-9381/9/12/002
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P1 [天文学];
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0704 ;
摘要
We generalize to p-dimensional extended objects and type II superstrings a recently proposed Green-Schwarz type I superstring action in which the tension T 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 T not-equal 0 and the null super p-brane for T = 0. We also show that for p = 1 the action can be written in 'Born-Infeld' form.
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