https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-014-3048-3
Regular Article - Theoretical Physics
Branes as solutions of gauge theories in gravitational field
1
Kharkov Institute of Physics and Technology, 1, Akademicheskaya St., Kharkov, 61108, Ukraine
2
Nordita, the Nordic Institute for Theoretical Physics, KTH Royal Institute of Technology and Stockholm University, Roslagstullsbacken 23, 106 91, Stockholm, Sweden
* e-mail: aaz@physto.se
Received:
12
June
2014
Accepted:
26
August
2014
Published online:
11
September
2014
The idea of the Gauss map is unified with the concept of branes as hypersurfaces embedded into 
-dimensional Minkowski space. The map introduces new generalized coordinates of branes alternative to their world vectors 
and identified with the gauge and other massless fields. In these coordinates the Dirac 
-branes realize extremals of the Euler–Lagrange equations of motion of a 
-dimensional 
gauge-invariant action in a gravitational background.
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