INTERACTING OPEN P-BRANES

The Kalb-Ramond action, derived for interacting strings through an act ion-at-a-distance force, is generalized to the case of interacting p-d imensional objects (p-branes) in D-dimensional space-time. The open p- brane version of the theory is especially taken up. On account of the existence of their boundary surface, the fields mediating interactions between open p-branes are obtained as massive gauge fields, quite in contrast to massless gauge ones for closed p-branes.