Twistor-like formulation of super p-branes

1993/12/21 by Eric Bergshoeff, E. Bergshoeff, Ergin Sezgin +1 · 1 citation
Mathematics · Physics and Astronomy · #Algebraic structures and combinatorial models #Black Holes and Theoretical Physics #Brane #Brane cosmology #Class (philosophy) #Computer science #Curvature #Geometry #Mathematical physics #Mathematics #Nonlinear Waves and Solitons #Physics #Pure mathematics #Superspace #Supersymmetry #Twistor theory #hep-th

paper · pdf · doi:10.1016/0550-3213(94)00108-1

published as Nucl.Phys. B422 (1994) 329-348 · 20 pages, plain tex, CTP TAMU-67/93, UG-5/93

arxiv created 1993/12/21 · openalex publication_date 1994/07/01 · arxiv updated 2009/11/30 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05

Abstract

Closed super (p+2)-forms in target superspace are relevant for the construction of the usual super p-brane actions. Here we construct closed super (p+1)-forms on a \it worldvolume superspace. They are built out of the pull-backs of the Kalb-Ramond super (p+1)-form and its curvature. We propose a twistor-like formulation of a class of super p-branes which crucially depends on the existence of these closed super (p+1)-forms.

Citations

• A ϰ-symmetry calculus for superparticles
• The heterotic Green-Schwarz superstring on an N = (2,0) super world-sheet
• Twistor-like superstrings with D = 3, 4, 6 target superspace and N = (1, 0), (2, 0), (4, 0) world-sheet supersymmetry
• Spacetime scale-invariance and the super p-brane
• Supermembranes and eleven-dimensional supergravity
• Heterotic solitons

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