A Weyl-invariant action for chiral strings and branes
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Publication:6286483
arXiv1705.03516MaRDI QIDQ6286483FDOQ6286483
Authors: Alex S. Arvanitakis 
Publication date: 9 May 2017
Abstract: We introduce a sigma model lagrangian generalising a number of new and old models which can be thought of as chiral, including the Schild string, ambitwistor strings, and the recently introduced tensionless AdS twistor strings. This "chiral sigma model" describes maps from a -brane worldvolume into a symplectic space and is manifestly diffeomorphism- and Weyl-invariant despite the absence of a worldvolume metric. Construction of the Batalin-Vilkovisky master action leads to a BRST operator under which the gauge-fixed action is BRST-exact; we discuss whether this implies that the chiral brane sigma model defines a topological field theory.
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