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Supersymmetry in the line/surface functional theory of strings and p-branes

Choon-Lin Ho

  • Institute of Physics, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan 11529, Republic of China

Phys. Rev. D 42, 3439 – Published 15 November, 1990

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.42.3439

Abstract

In previous papers, a line/surface functional theory was proposed as a field theory of geometric strings and p-branes. It was shown that for toroidal p-branes in d=p+2 dimensions, the field equations can be exactly solved, yielding equally spaced mass-squared spectrum with massless ground states. In this paper, we show that these results are the manifestation of N=p+1 hidden super-symmetries in the theory. For the line functional theory (p=1), we also work out the superalgebra satisfied by the two supercharges and the total angular momentum operator.

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