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    Light-Cone Formulation of Super D2-Brane

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    The light-cone Hamiltonian approach is applied to the super D2-brane, and the equivalent area--preserving and U(1) gauge-invariant effective Lagrangian, which is quadratic in the U(1) gauge field, is derived. The latter is recognised to be that of the three-dimensional U(1) gauge theory, interacting with matter supermultiplets, in a special external induced supergravity metric and the gravitino field, depending on matter fields. The duality between this theory and 11d supermembrane theory is demonstrated in the light-cone gauge.Comment: Version accepted for publication in Phys.Lett.B, Latex, 12 page

    Representations and BPS states of 10+2 superalgebra

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    The 12d supersymmetry algebra is considered, and classification of BPS states for some canonical form of second-rank central charge is given. It is shown, that possible fractions of survived supersymmetry can be 1/16, 1/8, 3/16, 1/4, 5/16 and 1/2, the values 3/8, 7/16 cannot be achieved in this way. The consideration of a special case of non-zero sixth-rank tensor charge also is included.Comment: Minor changes.Accepted for publication in Mod.Phys.Lett.A.Latex fil

    Free Fields Equations For Space-Time Algebras With Tensorial Momentum

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    Free field equations, with various spins, for space-time algebras with second-rank tensor (instead of usual vector) momentum are constructed. Similar algebras are appearing in superstring/M theories. The most attention is payed to the gauge invariance properties, particularly the spin two equations with gauge invariance are constructed for dimensions 2+2 and 2+4 and connection to Einstein equation and diffeomorphism invariance is established

    Towards SO(2,10)-Invariant M-Theory: Multilagrangian Fields

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    The SO(2,10) covariant extension of M-theory superalgebra is considered, with the aim to construct a correspondingly generalized M-theory, or 11d supergravity. For the orbit, corresponding to the 11d11d supergravity multiplet, the simplest unitary representations of the bosonic part of this algebra, with sixth-rank tensor excluded, are constructed on a language of field theory in 66d space-time. The main peculiarities are the presence of more than one equation of motion and corresponding Lagrangians for a given field and that the gauge and SUSY invariances of the theory mean that the sum of variations of these Lagrangians (with different variations of the same field) is equal to zero.Comment: Latex 16 pages, minor correction, To appear in Mod. Phys. Lett.

    Trace Anomalies and Cocycles of Weyl and Diffeomorphisms Groups

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    The general structure of trace anomaly, suggested recently by Deser and Shwimmer, is argued to be the consequence of the Wess-Zumino consistency condition. The response of partition function on a finite Weyl transformation, which is connected with the cocycles of the Weyl group in d=2kd=2k dimensions is considered, and explicit answers for d=4,6d=4,6 are obtained. Particularly, it is shown, that addition of the special combination of the local counterterms leads to the simple form of that cocycle, quadratic over Weyl field σ\sigma, i.e. the form, similar to the two-dimensional Lioville action. This form also establishes the connection of the cocycles with conformal-invariant operators of order dd and zero weight. Beside that, the general rule for transformation of that cocycles into the cocycles of diffeomorphisms group is presented.Comment: 14 page
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