Search for Duality Symmetries in p-Brane Theories

Abstract

The requirement of an $SL(2)$ duality symmetry, mixing the worldvolume field equations with Bianchi identities, leads to a highly nonlinear equation involving the transformation parameters and certain worldvolume currents. In general, this equation seems to admit a solution only for a two parameter subgroup of the seeked $SL(2)$. These transformations also leave invariant the first class constraints generating the worldvolume reparametrizations. In the special case of $p$--branes in $p+1$ dimensions, the full $SL(2)$ is realized.

7 pages, plain tex, contribution to the Proc. of the Gursey Memorial Conf. I on Strings and Symmetries, Istanbul, Turkey, June 6-10, 1994