A model for classical spacetime coordinates

DOI10.1088/0305-4470/30/1/017MaRDI QIDQ4235287zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors David B. Fairlie, R. Z. Zhdanov

Publication date 9 June 1999

Published in Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and General (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9609227

zbMATH Keywords

field equations with general covarianceLagrangian descriptionsreparametrization invariant membranes

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of differential geometry to physics (53Z05) Lagrange's equations (70H03) Classical field theories (70Sxx) String and superstring theories; other extended objects (e.g., branes) in quantum field theory (81T30)

Abstract: Field equations with general covariance are interpreted as equations for a target space describing physical space time co-ordinates, in terms of an underlying base space with conformal invariance. These equations admit an infinite number of inequivalent Lagrangian descriptions. A model for reparametrisation invariant membranes is obtained by reversing the roles of base and target space variables in these considerations.

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