Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Theory
Scientific paper
1997-04-22
Nuovo Cim. A110 (1997) 369-396
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Theory
28 pages
Scientific paper
10.1007/BF03035888
The theory of the usual, constrained p-branes is embedded into a larger theory in which there is no constraints. In the latter theory the Fock-Schwinger proper time formalism is extended from point-particles to membranes of arbitrary dimension. For this purpose the tensor calculus in the infinite dimensional membrane space M is developed and an action which is covariant under reparametrizations in M is proposed. The canonical and Hamiltonian formalism is elaborated in detail. The quantization appears to be straightforward and elegant. No problem with unitarity arises. The conventional p-brane states are particular stationary solutions to the functional Schroedinger equation which describes the evolution of a membrane's state with respect to the invariant evolution parameter tau. A tau-dependent solution which corresponds to the wave packet of a null p-brane is found. It is also shown that states of a lower dimensional membrane can be considered as particular states of a higher dimensional membrane.
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