Open Superbranes

TL;DR

This paper investigates the properties and constraints of open superbranes ending on host branes within the superembedding formalism, revealing how open brane constraints influence host brane dynamics and boundary conditions.

Contribution

It demonstrates that superspace constraints of open superbranes determine the constraints and dynamics of host branes in a supermanifold framework.

Findings

Superspace constraints of open branes suffice to determine host brane constraints.

Host brane dynamics are governed by these superspace constraints.

Boundary information of open branes in host branes is obtained.

Abstract

Open branes ending on other branes, which may be referred to as the host branes, are studied in the superembedding formalism. The open brane, host brane and the target space in which they are both embedded are all taken to be supermanifolds. It is shown that the superspace constraints satisfied by the open brane are sufficient to determine the corresponding superspace constraints for the host branes, whose dynamics are determined by these constraints. As a byproduct, one also obtains information about the boundary of the open brane propagating in the host brane.