Brane Symmetries Revisited: Symmetries of Tensile and Tensionless Branes in Possibly Degenerate Metrics and their Manifestations
arXiv:2512.20590 · doi:10.1007/JHEP07(2026)132
Abstract
We analyse the symmetries of tensionless and tensile branes moving in a target space with a possibly degenerate metric, with the worldvolume metric remaining nondegenerate. We recover known results about symmetries of strings and branes as well as new results in the tensionless and degenerate-metric cases. We comment on ramifications in the corresponding bulk theories.
34 pages. Version accepted in JHEP with minor revisions
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