The M5-brane Hamiltonian

E. Bergshoeff; D. Sorokin; P.K. Townsend

doi:10.1016/S0550-3213(98)00504-5

The M5-brane Hamiltonian

E. Bergshoeff, D. Sorokin, P.K. Townsend

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Abstract

We obtain the Hamiltonian form of the world-volume action for the M5-brane in a general D = 11 supergravity background. We use this result to obtain a new version of the covariant M5-brane Lagrangian in which the tension appears as a dynamical variable, although this Lagrangian has some unsatisfactory features which we trace to peculiarities of the null limit. We also show that the M5-brane action is invariant under all (super)isometries of the background.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	303 - 316
Number of pages	14
Journal	Nuclear Physics B
Volume	533
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/S0550-3213(98)00504-5
Publication status	Published - 1998

Keywords

Hamiltonian formulation
Superspace
Kappa symmetry
M-branes

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