CLASSICALLY EQUIVALENT ACTIONS FOR TENSIONLESS P-BRANES

Authors
HASSANI S LINDSTROM U VONUNGE R
Citation
S. Hassani et al., CLASSICALLY EQUIVALENT ACTIONS FOR TENSIONLESS P-BRANES, Classical and quantum gravity, 11(5), 1994, pp. 120000079-120000085
Citations number
23
Categorie Soggetti
Physics
Journal title
Classical and quantum gravity → ACNP
ISSN journal
02649381
Volume
11
Issue
5
Year of publication
1994
Pages
120000079 - 120000085
Database
ISI
SICI code
0264-9381(1994)11:5<120000079:CEAFTP>2.0.ZU;2-B
Abstract
We derive a number of classically equivalent actions for p-branes and discuss their tensionless limit. We then use one of these actions to s how that the standard Kaluza-Klein ansatz does not yield a tensile str ing from a tensionless one.