Goldstone tensor modes
Journal article, 1998

In the context of brane solutions of supergravity, we discuss a general method to introduce collective modes of any spin by exploiting a particular way of breaking symmetries. The method is applied to the D3, M2 and M5 branes and we derive explicit expressions for how the zero-modes enter the target space fields, verify normalisability in the transverse directions and derive the corresponding field equations on the brane. In particular, the method provides a clear understanding of scalar, spinor, and rank r tensorial Goldstone modes, chiral as well as non-chiral, and how they arise from the gravity, Rarita-Schwinger, and rank r+1 Kalb-Ramond tensor gauge fields, respectively. Some additional observations concerning the chiral tensor modes on the M5 brane are discussed.

Author

Tom Adawi

Department of Theoretical Physics

Martin Cederwall

Chalmers, Department of Theoretical Physics and Mechanics, Mathematical Physics

Ulf Gran

Department of Theoretical Physics

Bengt E W Nilsson

Chalmers, Department of Theoretical Physics and Mechanics, Mathematical Physics

Behrooz Razaznejad

Department of Theoretical Physics

J. High Energy Phys. 9902:001,1999

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