2017/09/28 by Darren T. Grasso, D. T. Grasso, I. N. McArthur +1
Mathematics · Physics and Astronomy · #Advanced Topics in Algebra #Algebra over a field #Algebraic structures and combinatorial models #Black Holes and Theoretical Physics #Brane #Cohomology #Invariant (physics) #Lagrangian #Mathematical physics #Mathematics #Noether's theorem #Physics #Pure mathematics #Supermanifold #Superstring theory #Supersymmetry #Theoretical physics #hep-th
paper · pdf · doi:10.1016/j.nuclphysb.2017.11.008
published as Nucl. Phys. B 926 (2018) 239 · 22 pages, typo corrected, reference added
arxiv created 2017/09/28 · openalex publication_date 2017/11/16 · arxiv updated 2018/03/14 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05
It has long been appreciated that superalgebras with bosonic and fermionic generators additional to those in the super-Poincare algebra underlie p-brane and D-brane actions in superstring theory. These algebras have been revealed via “bottom up” approaches, involving consideration of Noether charges, and by “top down” approaches, involving the construction of manifestly supersymmetry invariant Wess–Zumino actions. In this paper, we give an alternative derivation of these algebras based on integrability of supersymmetry transformations assigned to fields in order to solve a cohomology problem related to the construction of Wess–Zumino terms for p-brane and D-brane actions.