Gauge theory approach to branes and spontaneous symmetry breaking

Abstract

Gauge theory approach to consideration of the Nambu-Goldstone bosons as gauge and vector fields represented by the Cartan forms of spontaneously broken symmetries, is discussed. The approach is generalized to describe the fundamental branes in terms of $(p+1)$-dimensional worldvolume gauge and massless tensor fields consisting of the Nambu-Goldstone bosons associated with the spontaneously broken Poincare symmetry of the $D$-dimensional Minkowski space.

32 pages, v.5: version published in Rev. Math. Phys. with minor proofs, corrected typos, references presented in the journal pattern

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• The Effective Theory of Long Strings
• The construction of brane and superbrane actions using non-linear realisations
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