The Coupling of Yang-Mills to Extended Objects

Dixon, J. A.; Duff, M. J.; Sezgin, E.

The Coupling of Yang-Mills to Extended Objects

Authors

Dixon, J. A.

Duff, M. J.

Sezgin, E.

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 5-brane, are consistent with an earlier conjecture based on string/5-brane duality.
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