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On Brane Actions and Superembeddings

P. S. Howe, O. Raetzel, E. Sezgin

hep-tharXiv:hep-th/9804051

Abstract

Actions for branes, with or without worldsurface gauge fields, are discussed in a unified framework. A simple algorithm is given for constructing the component Green-Schwarz actions. Superspace actions are also discussed. Three examples are given to illustrate the general procedure: the membrane in D=11 and the D2-brane, which both have on-shell worldsurface supermultiplets, and the membrane in D=4, which has an off-shell multiplet.

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