Search for duality symmetries in p-branes Academic Article uri icon

abstract

  • The requirement of an $SL(2)$ duality symmetry, mixing the worldvolume field equations with Bianchi identities, leads to a highly nonlinear equation involving the transformation parameters and certain worldvolume currents. In general, this equation seems to admit a solution only for a two parameter subgroup of the seeked $SL(2)$. These transformations also leave invariant the first class constraints generating the worldvolume reparametrizations. In the special case of $p$--branes in $p+1$ dimensions, the full $SL(2)$ is realized.

author list (cited authors)

  • Sezgin, E.

citation count

  • 0

complete list of authors

  • Sezgin, E

publication date

  • October 1995