Ultraviolet singularities in classical brane theory

DOI10.1007/JHEP12(2010)063zbMATH Open1294.81214arXiv1011.3746OpenAlexW3105397735MaRDI QIDQ407015FDOQ407015

Authors: Kurt Lechner 

Publication date: 29 August 2014

Published in: Journal of High Energy Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We construct for the first time an energy-momentum tensor for the electromagnetic field of a p-brane in arbitrary dimensions, entailing finite energy-momentum integrals. The construction relies on distribution theory and is based on a Lorentz-invariant regularization, followed by the subtraction of divergent and finite counterterms supported on the brane. The resulting energy-momentum tensor turns out to be uniquely determined. We perform the construction explicitly for a generic flat brane. For a brane in arbitrary motion our approach provides a new paradigm for the derivation of the, otherwise divergent, self-force of the brane. The so derived self-force is automatically finite and guarantees, by construction, energy-momentum conservation.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1011.3746

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zbMATH Keywords

bosonic stringsp-branesspace-time symmetries

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Electromagnetic theory (general) (78A25) String and superstring theories; other extended objects (e.g., branes) in quantum field theory (81T30) Electromagnetic interaction; quantum electrodynamics (81V10) Special relativity (83A05) Kaluza-Klein and other higher-dimensional theories (83E15) String and superstring theories in gravitational theory (83E30)

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