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The “hidden” symmetries and the associated transformation laws for the Chaplygin and Born—Infeld models may be given a coherent setting by considering the Nambu—Goto action for a d-brane in (d + 1) spatial dimensions, moving on (d + 1,1)-dimensional space—time. In our context, a d-brane is simply a d-dimensional extended object a 1-brane is a string, a 2-brane is a membrane, and so on. A d-brane in (d + 1) space divides that space in two.
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Jackiw, R. (2002). Common Ancestry: The Nambu—Goto Action. In: Lectures on Fluid Dynamics. CRM Series in Mathematical Physics. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-3665-6_4
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