p-branes from (p-2)-branes in the Bosonic String Theory

TL;DR

This paper demonstrates that Dirichlet p-branes can be constructed from infinitely many Dirichlet (p-2)-branes within bosonic string theory, offering a new perspective on brane configurations and their associated fields.

Contribution

It introduces a novel representation of p-branes as composites of (p-2)-branes and interprets worldvolume gauge fields as deformations of these configurations.

Findings

p-branes can be expressed as (p-2)-brane configurations

worldvolume gauge fields relate to diffeomorphisms

new insights into brane deformation mechanisms

Abstract

We show that Dirichlet p-brane can be expressed as a configuration of infinitely many Dirichlet (p-2)-branes in the bosonic string theory. Using this fact, we interpret the massless fields on the p-brane worldvolume as deformations of the configuration of the (p-2)-branes. Especially we find that the worldvolume gauge field parametrizes part of the group of diffeomorphisms on the worldvolume.