Superbrane Actions and Geometrical Approach

Abstract

We review a generic structure of conventional (Nambu-Goto and Dirac-Born-Infeld-like) worldvolume actions for the superbranes and show how it is connected through a generalized action construction with a doubly supersymmetric geometrical approach to the description of super-p-brane dynamics as embedding world supersurfaces into target superspaces.

Based on talks given by the authors at the Volkov Memorial Seminar "Supersymmetry and Quantum field Theory" (Kharkov, January 5-7, 1997), LaTeX file, 11 pages Misprints corrected, references added