Covariant action for a D = 11 five-brane with the chiral field
Abstract
We propose a complete Born-Infeld-like action for a bosonic 5-brane with a worldvolume chiral field in a background of gravitational and antisymmetric gauge fields of D = 11 supergravity. When the five-brane couples to a three-rank antisymmetric gauge field, local symmetries of the five-brane require the addition to the action of an appropriate Wess=Zumino term. To preserve general coordinate and Lorentz invariance of the model we introduce a single auxiliary scalar field. The auxiliary field can be eliminated by gauge fixing a corresponding local symmetry at the price of the loss of manifestd = 6 worldvolume covariance. The double dimensional reduction of the five-brane model results in the Born-Infeld action with the Wess-Zumino term for a D = 10 four-D-brane.
- Publication:
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Physics Letters B
- Pub Date:
- February 1997
- DOI:
- 10.1016/S0370-2693(97)00188-3
- arXiv:
- arXiv:hep-th/9701037
- Bibcode:
- 1997PhLB..398...41P
- Keywords:
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- High Energy Physics - Theory
- E-Print:
- LaTeX file, 10 pages, the form of eq. (8) corrected, a Comment added, version to appear in Phys. Lett. B