A Clifford bundle approach to the differential geometry of branes (Q483086)

This paper develops the basics of the geometry of submanifolds in the language of Clifford bundles, in view of the study of four-dimensional ``branes'' with arbitrary metric tensors, isometrically embedded in a pseudo-Euclidean space \({\mathbb R}^{p,q}\) with \(p=2\) and \(q=46\) or 87. The authors also suggest that this formalism is adapted to the generalization to four dimensions of the ``space-theory of matter'' proposed by \textit{W. K. Clifford} [Proc. Cambridge Phys. Soc. 2, 157--158 (1876)].