Year: 1998
Type: article
Abstract: We obtain the Hamiltonian form of the world-volume action for the M5-brane is a general D = 11 supergravity background. We use this result to obtain a new version of the covariant M5-brane Lagrangian in which the tension appears as a dynamical variable, although this Lagrangian has some unsatisfactory features which we trace to peculiarities of the null limit. We also show that the M5-brane action is invariant under all (super)isometries of the background.
Source: Nuclear Physics B
Authors: E. Bergshoeff, D. Sorokin, P.K. Townsend
Language: English
Subfield: Nuclear and High Energy Physics
Field: Physics and Astronomy
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: hybrid
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OpenAlex ID: W2155588009