Brane Effective Actions, Kappa-Symmetry and Applications

This is a review on brane effective actions, their symmetries and some of their applications. Its first part covers the Green–Schwarz formulation of single M- and D-brane effective actions focusing on kinematical aspects: the identification of their degrees of freedom, the importance of world volume...

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Main Author: Joan Simón
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SpringerOpen 2012-02-01
Series:Living Reviews in Relativity
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Online Access:http://www.livingreviews.org/lrr-2012-3