Abstract
We consider the doubly supersymmetric formulation of various p-branes, that is, we replace the worldsurface of a super p-brane by a super worldsurface and consider the embedding of the latter into a target superspace. The number of worldsurface fermionic coordinates is taken to be half as many as those of the target superspace. We show that a simple geometrical constraint and its integrability condition lead to manifestly worldsurface supersymmetric field equations for a large class of super p-branes. We illustrate this procedure in some detail in the case of the D = 11 superfivebrane. We also describe a class of super p-branes in which a worldsurface linear supermultiplet arises. In some cases we show that an additional constraint involving the curvature of an appropriate worldsurface antisymmetric tensor potential is needed to put the theory on-shell.
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