The Iia Super-eightbrane
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چکیده
We present a version of ten-dimensional IIA supergravity containing a 9-form potential for which the field equations are equivalent to those of the standard, massless, IIA theory for vanishing 10-form field strength, F 10 , and to those of the 'massive' IIA theory for non-vanishing F 10. We exhibit a multi 8-brane solution of this theory which preserves half the supersymmetry. We propose this solution as the effective field theory realization of the Dirichlet 8-brane of type IIA superstring theory.
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ar X iv : h ep - t h / 99 01 02 7 v 1 9 J an 1 99 9 hep - th / 9901027 January , 1999 UMDEPP 99 – 068 Super Eightbrane in Superspace
We present a superspace formulation for super eightbrane theory based on massive type IIA supergravity in ten-dimensions. Remarkably, in addition to the 10-form superfield strength originally needed for super eightbrane, we also need an 'over-ranked' 11-form superfield strength H A 1 ···A 11 with identically vanishing purely bosonic component, in order to satisfy all the Bianchi identities. As ...
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