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Gauge theory approach to branes and spontaneous symmetry breaking

A. A. Zheltukhin

A. A. Zheltukhin

Kharkov Institute of Physics and Technology, Kharkov, 61108, Ukraine

Nordita, KTH Royal Institute of Technology and Stockholm University, SE 106 91 Stockholm, Sweden

E-mail Address: aaz@physto.se

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Abstract

We discuss the gauge theory approach to consideration of the Nambu–Goldstone bosons as gauge and vector fields represented by the Cartan forms of spontaneously broken symmetries. The approach is generalized to describe the fundamental branes in terms of $(p + 1)$ -dimensional worldvolume gauge and massless tensor fields consisting of the Nambu–Goldstone bosons associated with the spontaneously broken Poincaré symmetry of the $D$ -dimensional Minkowski space.

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AMSC: 53A10, 83C22, 35Q75

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