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Relativistic Chaplygin Gas with Field-Dependent Poincaré Symmetry

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The relativistic generalization of the Chaplygin gas, put forward by Jackiw and Polychronakos, is derived in Duval's Kaluza–Klein framework, using a universal quadratic Lagrangian. Our framework yields a simplified proof of the field-dependent Poincaré symmetry. Our action is related to the usual Nambu–Goto action [world volume] of d-branes in the same way as the Polyakov and the Nambu action are in string theory.

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Hassaïne, M., Horváthy, P.A. Relativistic Chaplygin Gas with Field-Dependent Poincaré Symmetry. Letters in Mathematical Physics 57, 33–40 (2001). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1017970812965

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