Brane effective actions capture the relevant dynamics of M-theory or string theory in some appropriate regimes of validity. Thus, they contain reliable information about its spectrum and its dynamics in those regimes. In this section, I will develop the tools to study the world volume realisation of supersymmetric states carrying the extra bosonic (topological) charges appearing in the maximal supersymmetry algebras introduced in Sections 3.6.1 and 3.6.2.
One such realisation is in terms of classical bosonic on-shell configurations. As it often occurs with supersymmetric configurations, instead of focusing on the integration of the equations of motion, I will focus on the conditions ensuring preservation of supersymmetry and on their physical interpretation. In particular,
The framework and set of relations covered in this section are summarised in Figure 6.
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