2000/11/30 by Marcus T. Grisaru, Marcia E. Knutt · 24 citations
Physics and Astronomy · #Action (physics) #Black Holes and Theoretical Physics #Coordinate system #Effective action #Gauge (firearms) #Gauge theory #Order (exchange) #Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies #Quantum Chromodynamics and Particle Interactions #Supergravity #hep-th
paper · pdf · doi:10.1016/s0370-2693(01)00055-7
published in Physics Letters B 500(1-2), 188-198 (Elsevier BV) · 15 pages, Latex. One reference added and more explicit form given for fourth-order expansion of last section
arxiv created 2000/12/18 · openalex publication_date 2001/02/01 · arxiv updated 2009/11/30 · openalex created_date 2016/06/24 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05
We use normal coordinate methods to obtain the expansion with respect to fermionic coordinates of the 11-dimensional supermembrane action in a supergravity background. Likewise, expansions for various branes in other dimensions can be obtained. These methods allow a systematic and unambiguous expansion of the vielbein to any order in the fermionic coordinates and avoid the complications encountered in the gauge completion approach.