Super p-Form Charges and a Reformulation of the Supermembrane Action in Eleven Dimensions
Abstract
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We discuss an extension of the super-Poincaré algebra in $D=11$ which includes an extra fermionic charge and super two-form charges. We give a geometrical reformulation of the $D=11$ supermembrane action which is manifestly invariant under the extended super-Poincaré transformations. Using the same set of transformations, we also reformulate a superstring action in $D=11$, considered sometime ago by Curtright. While this paper is primarily a review of a recent work by Bergshoeff and the author, it does contain some new results.
11 pages, LaTex, Contribution to the Leuven Workshop, July 1995
11 pages, LaTex, Contribution to the Leuven Workshop, July 1995