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Super p-Brane Theories and New Spacetime Superalgebras

E. Bergshoeff, E. Sezgin

hep-tharXiv:hep-th/9504140

Abstract

We present a geometric formulation of super p--brane theories in which the Wess--Zumino term is (p+1)--th order in the supersymmetric currents, and hence is manifestly supersymmetric. The currents are constructed using a supergroup manifold corresponding to a generalization of a superalgebra which we found sometime ago. Our results generalize Siegel's analogous reformulation of the Green--Schwarz superstring. The new superalgebras we construct underly the free differential superalgebras introduced by de Azcárraga and Townsend a few years ago.

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