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Non-Relativistic Superbranes
Joaquim Gomis, Kiyoshi Kamimura, Paul K. Townsend
Subtleties arising in the non-relativistic limit of relativistic branes are resolved, and a reparametrization-invariant and kappa-symmetric non-relativistic super p-brane action is…
Supercurves
David Mateos, Selena Ng, Paul K. Townsend
The TST-dual of the general 1/4-supersymmetric D2-brane supertube is identified as a 1/4-supersymmetric IIA `supercurve': a string with arbitrary transverse displacement travelling…
Supertubes
D. Mateos, P. K. Townsend
It is shown that a IIA superstring carrying D0-brane charge can be `blown-up', in a {\it Minkowski vacuum} background, to a (1/4)-supersymmetric tubular D2-brane, supported against…
The M5-brane Hamiltonian
E. Bergshoeff, D. Sorokin, P. K. Townsend
We obtain the Hamiltonian form of the worldvolume action for the M5-brane in a general D=11 supergravity background. We use this result to obtain a new version of the covariant M5-…
Super D-branes revisited
E. Bergshoeff, P. K. Townsend
A version of the kappa-symmetric super D-p-brane action is presented in which the tension is a dynamical variable, equal to the flux of a p-form worldvolume gauge field. The Lagran…
Four Lectures on M-theory
P. K. Townsend
Synopsis: (i) how superstring theories are unified by M-theory; (ii) how superstring and supermembrane properties follow from the D=10 and D=11 supersymmetry algebras; (iii) how D=…