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p-Brane Action from Gravi-Dilaton Effective Action

J. A. Nieto, C. M. Yee

hep-tharXiv:hep-th/0008014

Abstract

Using a special ansatz for the metric, by straightforward computation we prove that gravi-dilaton effective action in higher dimensions is reduced to the p-brane action. The dual symmetry of the generic type %a 1a is an important symmetry of the reduced action.

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