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Publications and source records attributed to D. T. Reimers.
The known extended algebras associated with p-branes are shown to be generated as topological charge algebras of the standard p-brane actions. A representation of the charges in terms of superspace forms is constructed. The charges are shown to be the same in standard/extended superspace formulations of the action.
Two superalgebras associated with $p$-branes are the constraint algebra and the Noether charge algebra. Both contain anomalous terms which modify the standard supertranslation algebra. These anomalous terms have a natural description in terms of double complex cohomology of generalized forms. By retaining fermionic charges and allowing for gauge freedom in the double complex, it is shown that the algebra of conserved charges forms a spectrum with free parameters. The spectrum associated with the Green-Schwarz superstring is shown to contain and generalize the known superalgebras associated with the superstring.
New extended superspaces associated with topological charge algebras of the D-brane are used to construct D-brane actions without worldvolume gauge fields. The actions are shown to be kappa-symmetric under an appropriately chosen right group action.