Super Five Brane Hamiltonian and the Chiral Degrees of Freedom

TL;DR

This paper develops a Hamiltonian formulation for the super five brane that avoids metric inverses, allowing for singular configurations and revealing a multiparticle interpretation, with detailed symmetry and chiral sector analysis.

Contribution

It introduces a novel Hamiltonian formulation of the super five brane that is independent of the inverse induced metric, enabling new insights into its physical degrees of freedom and symmetries.

Findings

Hamiltonian constructed without inverse metric dependence

Singular configurations are physically admissible

Chiral sector reduction to physical degrees of freedom

Abstract

We construct the Hamiltonian of the super five brane in terms of its physical degrees of freedom. It does not depend on the inverse of the induced metric. Consequently, some singular configurations are physically admissible, implying an interpretation of the theory as a multiparticle one. The symmetries of the theory are analyzed from the canonical point of view in terms of the first and second class constraints. In particular it is shown how the chiral sector may be canonically reduced to its physical degrees of freedom.