Second-order Lagrangian and symplectic current for gravitationally perturbed Dirac-Goto-Nambu strings and branes

DOI10.1088/0264-9381/17/16/315MaRDI QIDQ4523570zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Richard A. Battye, Brandon Carter

Publication date 14 January 2001

Published in Classical and Quantum Gravity (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9811075

zbMATH Keywords

Dirac-Goto-Nambu-type stringsgravitational perturbationshigher-dimensional branesLagrangianmembranes

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

String and superstring theories; other extended objects (e.g., branes) in quantum field theory (81T30) String and superstring theories in gravitational theory (83E30)

Abstract: We extend a recent analysis of gravitational perturbations on Dirac-Nambu-Goto strings, membranes and higher dimensional branes. In an arbitrary gauge, it is shown that the relevant first order equations governing the displacement vector of the worldsheet and metric perturbation are obtainable from a variational principle whose Lagrangian is constructed as a second order perturbation of the standard Dirac-Goto-Nambu action density. A symplectic current functional is obtained as a by-product that is potentially useful for the derivation of conservation laws in particular circumstances.

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