Topological defects and corrections to the Nambu action

1993/03/01 by Vanda Silveira, M. D. Maia · 2 citations
Physics and Astronomy · #Black Holes and Theoretical Physics #Noncommutative and Quantum Gravity Theories #Quantum Electrodynamics and Casimir Effect #gr-qc

paper · pdf · doi:10.1016/0375-9601(93)90138-p

published as Phys.Lett.A174:280-284,1993 · UNB.FIS.FM-002/92, Marcos@FNAL, 12 pages, Latex

openalex publication_date 1993/03/01 · arxiv created 1993/03/11 · arxiv updated 2009/11/30 · openalex created_date 2016/06/24 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28

Abstract

The effective action of a (1+2)-dimensional defect is obtained as an expansion in powers of the thickness.Considering non-straight solutions as the zero order term, the corrections to the Nambu action are found to depend on the curvature scalar and on the gaussian curvature .

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