p-BRANES, POISSON-SIGMA MODELS AND EMBEDDING APPROACH TO (p+1)-DIMENSIONAL GRAVITY

DOI10.1142/S0217751X99002311zbMATH Open0945.83026arXivhep-th/9703099MaRDI QIDQ4944653FDOQ4944653

Authors: Wolfgang Kummer, Igor A. Bandos 

Publication date: 9 October 2000

Published in: International Journal of Modern Physics A (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: A generalization of the embedding approach for d-dimensional gravity based upon p-brane theories is considered. We show that the D-dimensional p-brane coupled to an antisymmetric tensor field of rank (p+1) provides the dynamical basis for the description of d=(p+1) dimensional gravity in the isometric embedding formalism. Physical matter appears in such an approach as a manifestation of a D-dimensional antisymmetric tensor (generalized Kalb- Ramond) background. For the simplest case, the Lorentz harmonic formulation of the bosonic string in a Kalb-Ramond background and its relation to a first order Einstein-Cartan approach for d=2 dimensional gravity is analysed in some detail. A general Poisson-sigma-model structure emerges. For the minimal choice of D=3 an interesting ``dual formulation is found which has the structure of a Jackiw-Teitelboim theory, coupled minimally to a massive scalar field. Our approach is intended to serve as a preparation for the study of d- dimensional supergravity theory, either starting from the generalized action of free supersymmetric (d-1)-branes or $D_{(d-1)}$-branes, or from the corresponding geometric equations ('rheotropic' conditions).

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9703099

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zbMATH Keywords

\(p\)-braneantisymmetric tensor field\(d\)-dimensional gravityKalb-Ramond background\((d=2)\)-dimensional gravityEinstein-Cartan approachisometric embedding formalismJackiw-Teitelboim theory coupled minimally to a massive scalar field

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Relativistic gravitational theories other than Einstein's, including asymmetric field theories (83D05) Kaluza-Klein and other higher-dimensional theories (83E15) String and superstring theories in gravitational theory (83E30) Analogues of general relativity in lower dimensions (83C80)

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