Superbranes, D = 11 CJS Supergravity and Enlarged Superspace Coordinates/Fields Correspondence
- Department of Theoretical Physics, Facultad de Fisica, 46100-Burjassot, Valencia (Spain)
We discuss the role of enlarged superspaces in two seemingly different contexts, the structure of the p-brane actions and that of the Cremmer-Julia-Scherk eleven-dimensional supergravity. Both provide examples of a common principle: the existence of an enlarged superspaces coordinates/fields correspondence by which all the (worldvolume or spacetime) fields of the theory are associated to coordinates of enlarged superspaces. In the context of p-branes, enlarged superspaces may be used to construct manifestly supersymmetry-invariant Wess-Zumino terms and as a way of expressing the Born-Infeld worldvolume fields of D-branes and the worldvolume M5-brane two-form in terms of fields associated to the coordinates of these enlarged superspaces. This is tantamount to saying that the Born-Infeld fields have a superspace origin, as do the other worldvolume fields, and that they have a composite structure. In D=11 supergravity theory enlarged superspaces arise when its underlying gauge structure is investigated and, as a result, the composite nature of the A3 field is revealed: there is a full one-parametric family of enlarged superspace groups that solve the problem of expressing A3 in terms of spacetime fields associated to their coordinates. The corresponding enlarged supersymmetry algebras turn out to be deformations of an expansion of the osp(1 vertical bar 32) algebra. The unifying mathematical structure underlying all these facts is the cohomology of the supersymmetry algebras involved.
- OSTI ID:
- 20630890
- Journal Information:
- AIP Conference Proceedings, Vol. 767, Issue 1; Conference: 19. Max Born symposium on fundamental interactions and twistor-like methods, Wroclaw (Poland), 28 Sep - 1 Oct 2004; Other Information: DOI: 10.1063/1.1923338; (c) 2005 American Institute of Physics; Country of input: International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA); ISSN 0094-243X
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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