1996/09/24 by Tadashi Miyazaki, Miyazaki, Tadashi
Physics and Astronomy · #FOS: Physical sciences #High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th) #hep-th
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.hep-th/9609186
20 pages, LaTeX
arxiv created 1996/09/24 · arxiv updated 2009/11/30
A general action is proposed for the fields of q-dimensional differential form over the compact Riemannian manifold of arbitrary dimensions. Mathematical tools come from the well-known de Rham-Kodaira decomposing theorem on the harmonic integral. We have a field-theoretic action suitable for strings and p-branes with or without spin degrees of freedom. In a completely-kinematical way is derived the generalized Maxwell theory with a magnetic monopole over a curved space-time, where we have a new type of gauge transformations.