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The Non-Abelian Topological Gauge Field Theory of p-Branes

Yi-Shi Duan, Ji-rong Ren

hep-tharXiv:hep-th/0504114

Abstract

By the generalization of Chern--Simons topological current and Gauss--Bonnet-Chern theorem, the purpose of this paper is to make a non-Abelian gauge field theory foundation of the topological current of p-branes formulated in our previous work. Using ϕ--mapping topological current theory proposed by Professor Duan, we find that the topological p-branes are created at every isolated zero of vector field ϕ(x). It is shown that the topological charges carried by p-branes are topologically quantized and labeled by Hopf index and Brouwer degree, i.e., the winding number of the ϕ--mapping. The action of topological p--branes is obtained and is just Nambu action for multistrings when D- d=2.

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