A Note on Hamilton-Jacobi Formalism and D-brane Effective Actions

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5 January 2004

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Published by arXiv in arXiv

https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.hep-th/0310125

Abstract

We first review the canonical formalism with general space-like hypersurfaces developed by Dirac by rederiving the Hamilton-Jacobi equations which are satisfied by on-shell actions defined on such hypersurfaces. We compare the case of gravitational systems with that of the flat space. Next, we remark as a supplement to our previous results that the effective actions of D-brane and M-brane given by arbitrary embedding functions are on-shell actions of supergravities.

Keywords

BRANE EFFECTIVE ACTIONS
EFFECTIVE ACTIONS
JACOBI FORMALISM
HAMILTON JACOBI
HYPERSURFACES
GRAVITATIONAL

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Published version: Physics Letters B, 579 (1-2), 217.

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