Gauge theory approach to branes and spontaneous symmetry breaking

TL;DR

This paper develops a gauge theory framework to describe branes and spontaneous symmetry breaking, representing Nambu-Goldstone bosons as gauge and tensor fields on the brane worldvolume, generalizing previous approaches.

Contribution

It introduces a novel gauge theory approach to model branes using Nambu-Goldstone bosons as gauge and tensor fields, extending the description to include fundamental branes in higher dimensions.

Findings

Unified gauge-theoretic description of branes and symmetry breaking

Representation of Nambu-Goldstone bosons as gauge and tensor fields

Generalization to D-dimensional Minkowski space

Abstract

Gauge theory approach to consideration of the Nambu-Goldstone bosons as gauge and vector fields represented by the Cartan forms of spontaneously broken symmetries, is discussed. The approach is generalized to describe the fundamental branes in terms of $(p+1)$-dimensional worldvolume gauge and massless tensor fields consisting of the Nambu-Goldstone bosons associated with the spontaneously broken Poincare symmetry of the $D$-dimensional Minkowski space.