(p+2)-form gauge fields for p-brane through an action-at-a-distance

1997/12/26 by T. Miyazaki, C. Ohzeki, M. Yamanobe
Physics and Astronomy · #hep-th

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published as Nuovo Cim. B114 (1999) 589-593 · 6 pages

arxiv created 1997/12/26 · arxiv updated 2009/11/30

Abstract

In the conventional p-brane theory, a gauge (p+1)-form field ϕ^(p+1) mediates the interaction between p-branes, which is gauge invariant in the sense ϕ^(p+1)→ ϕ^(p+1)+dΛ^(p) with Λ^(p), an arbitrary p-form and d, a boundary operator. We, on the contrary, propose to introduce a new gauge field ϕ^(p+2) mediating the interaction, and we have a new type of gauge transformation: ϕ^(p+2)→ ϕ^(p+2) +δΛ^(p+3), with δ, a coboundary operator.

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