Published April 16, 1992 | Version v1
Journal article

The coupling of Yang-Mills to extended objects

  • 1. Center for Theoretical Physics, Texas A and M Univ., College Station, TX (United States)

Description

The coupling of Yang-Mills fields to the heterotic string in bosonic formulation is generalized to extended objects of higher dimension (p-branes). For odd p, the Bianchi identities obeyed by the field strengths of the (p+1)-forms receive Chern-Simons corrections which, in the case of the five-brane, are consistent with an earlier conjecture based on string/five-brane duality. (orig.)

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Publishing Information

Journal Title
Physics Letters. Section B
Journal Volume
279
Journal Issue
3/4
Series
Phys. Lett., Sect. B.
Journal Page Range
265-271
ISSN
0370-2693
CODEN
PYLBA

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Contract/Grant/Project number
Grant PHY-91-06593