2026-07-072026-07-07http://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/207882In string theory, nilpotence of the BRS operator $\d$ for the string functional relates the Chern-Simons term in the gauge-invariant antisymmetric tensor field strength to the central term in the Kac-Moody algebra. We generalize these ideas to p-branes with odd p and find that the Kac-Moody algebra for the string becomes the Mickelsson-Faddeev algebra for the p-brane.11 pages, CTP-TAMU-45-92, (Correction of some minor sign errors and typos)High Energy Physics - Theorytext