Published April 16, 1992 | Version v1
Journal article

Minimal surfaces in symmetric spaces and dynamics of membranes in non-abelian gauge fields

  • 1. Dept. de Physique, Univ. Tours, 37 (France)
  • 2. Dept. d'Astrophysique Relativiste et Cosmologie, Observatoire de Paris 92 - Meudon (France)

Description

A geometrical description of the dynamics of membranes coupled to non-abelian gauge fields and to gravitation is proposed. It uses dimensional reduction of a Kaluza-Klein space. The motion of membranes corresponds to minimal surface of this space and the conserved surface currents associated with the gauge group satisfy a generalized London equation. (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
259-264
ISSN
0370-2693
CODEN
PYLBA