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1. • CommentRowNumber1.
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   • CommentTimeMay 9th 2018
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   Author: Urs
   Format: MarkdownItexadded pointer to [Sorokin 01](https://ncatlab.org/nlab/show/superembedding+approach#Sorokin01) <a href="https://ncatlab.org/nlab/revision/diff/superembedding+approach/2">diff</a>, <a href="https://ncatlab.org/nlab/revision/superembedding+approach/2">v2</a>, <a href="https://ncatlab.org/nlab/show/superembedding+approach">current</a>

   added pointer to Sorokin 01

   diff, v2, current

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   Format: MarkdownItexfinally cross-lonked with _[[kappa-symmetry]]_. Also brought in the relevant text from there. <a href="https://ncatlab.org/nlab/revision/diff/super-embedding+formalism/8">diff</a>, <a href="https://ncatlab.org/nlab/revision/super-embedding+formalism/8">v8</a>, <a href="https://ncatlab.org/nlab/show/super-embedding+formalism">current</a>

   finally cross-lonked with kappa-symmetry. Also brought in the relevant text from there.

   diff, v8, current

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   • CommentTimeJul 25th 2019
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   Format: MarkdownItexadded some stuff, some graphics, and in particular pointer to the derivations of brane Lagrangians as relative trivialization of super-cocycles along super-embeddings <a href="https://ncatlab.org/nlab/revision/diff/super-embedding+formalism/8">diff</a>, <a href="https://ncatlab.org/nlab/revision/super-embedding+formalism/8">v8</a>, <a href="https://ncatlab.org/nlab/show/super-embedding+formalism">current</a>

   added some stuff, some graphics, and in particular pointer to the derivations of brane Lagrangians as relative trivialization of super-cocycles along super-embeddings

   diff, v8, current

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   • CommentTimeJan 27th 2023
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   Author: Urs
   Format: MarkdownItexadded pointer to: * [[Igor A. Bandos]], [[Dmitri P. Sorokin]], *Superembedding approach to superstrings and super-$p$-branes*, in *[[Handbook of Quantum Gravity]]*, Springer (2023) &lbrack;[arXiv:2301.10668](https://arxiv.org/abs/2301.10668)&rbrack; <a href="https://ncatlab.org/nlab/revision/diff/super-embedding+formalism/15">diff</a>, <a href="https://ncatlab.org/nlab/revision/super-embedding+formalism/15">v15</a>, <a href="https://ncatlab.org/nlab/show/super-embedding+formalism">current</a>

   added pointer to:

   • Igor A. Bandos, Dmitri P. Sorokin, Superembedding approach to superstrings and super-$p$-branes, in Handbook of Quantum Gravity, Springer (2023) [arXiv:2301.10668]

   diff, v15, current

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   • CommentTimeMay 15th 2024
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   Author: Urs
   Format: MarkdownItexadded pointer to: * [[Igor Bandos]], *Superembedding approach and generalized action in String/M-theory*, in: *Supersymemtries and Quantum Symmetries*, Lecture Notes in Physics **524**, Springer (1999) &lbrack;[arXiv:hep-th/9807202](https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9807202), [doi:10.1007/BFb0104595](https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0104595)&rbrack; and * [[Igor A. Bandos]], *Superembedding approach to Dp-branes, M-branes and multiple D(0)-brane systems*, Phys. Part. Nucl. Lett. **8** (2011) 149-172 &lbrack;[arXiv:0912.2530](https://arxiv.org/abs/0912.2530), [doi:10.1134/S1547477111030046](https://doi.org/10.1134/S1547477111030046)&rbrack; <a href="https://ncatlab.org/nlab/revision/diff/super-embedding+formalism/21">diff</a>, <a href="https://ncatlab.org/nlab/revision/super-embedding+formalism/21">v21</a>, <a href="https://ncatlab.org/nlab/show/super-embedding+formalism">current</a>

   added pointer to:

   • Igor Bandos, Superembedding approach and generalized action in String/M-theory, in: Supersymemtries and Quantum Symmetries, Lecture Notes in Physics 524, Springer (1999) [arXiv:hep-th/9807202, doi:10.1007/BFb0104595]

   and

   • Igor A. Bandos, Superembedding approach to Dp-branes, M-branes and multiple D(0)-brane systems, Phys. Part. Nucl. Lett. 8 (2011) 149-172 [arXiv:0912.2530, doi:10.1134/S1547477111030046]

   diff, v21, current

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   • CommentTimeMay 18th 2024
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   Format: MarkdownItexadded ([here](https://ncatlab.org/nlab/show/super-embedding+formalism#SuperEmbeddingCondition)) to the Idea-section a couple of paragraphs on the nature of the "super-embedding condition" <a href="https://ncatlab.org/nlab/revision/diff/super-embedding+formalism/25">diff</a>, <a href="https://ncatlab.org/nlab/revision/super-embedding+formalism/25">v25</a>, <a href="https://ncatlab.org/nlab/show/super-embedding+formalism">current</a>

   added (here) to the Idea-section a couple of paragraphs on the nature of the “super-embedding condition”

   diff, v25, current

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   • CommentTimeAug 16th 2024
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   Format: MarkdownItexIn this note: * *[[schreiber:Holographic M-Brane Super-Embeddings|Holographic M-Brane Super-Embeddings]]* we construct what seems to be the first non-trivial actual example of a brane super-embedding. (This is an expanded version of what used to be section 2 of *[[schreiber:Flux Quantization on Holographic M5-Branes|Flux Quantization on Holographic M5-Branes]]*.) <a href="https://ncatlab.org/nlab/revision/diff/super-embedding+formalism/34">diff</a>, <a href="https://ncatlab.org/nlab/revision/super-embedding+formalism/34">v34</a>, <a href="https://ncatlab.org/nlab/show/super-embedding+formalism">current</a>

   In this note:

   • Holographic M-Brane Super-Embeddings

   we construct what seems to be the first non-trivial actual example of a brane super-embedding.

   (This is an expanded version of what used to be section 2 of Flux Quantization on Holographic M5-Branes.)

   diff, v34, current

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   • CommentTimeAug 22nd 2024
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   Format: MarkdownItexAdded pointer to early consideration of the idea of [[superstring]] [[sigma-models]] where both the [[worldsheet]] as well as the [[target spacetime]] are treated as [[supermanifolds]] (under the name "supersymmetry squared"): * [[S. James Gates Jr.]], [[Hitoshi Nishino]]: *$D = 2$ superfield supergravity, local $(supersymmetry)^2$ and non-linear 2 models*, Classical and Quantum Gravity **3** 3 (1986) 391-399 \[<a href="https://doi.org/10.1088/0264-9381/3/3/013">doi:10.1088/0264-9381/3/3/013</a>, [spire:217518](https://inspirehep.net/literature/217518)\] * R. Brooks, F. Muhammad, [[S. James Gates Jr.]]: *Matter Coupled to $D=2$ Simple Unidexterous Supergravity, Local $(Supersymmetry)^2$ and Strings*, Class. Quant. Grav. **3** 5 (1986) 745-751 \[<a href="https://doi.org/10.1088/0264-9381/3/5/005">doi:10.1088/0264-9381/3/5/005</a>, [spire:237390](https://inspirehep.net/literature/237390)\] <a href="https://ncatlab.org/nlab/revision/diff/super-embedding+formalism/36">diff</a>, <a href="https://ncatlab.org/nlab/revision/super-embedding+formalism/36">v36</a>, <a href="https://ncatlab.org/nlab/show/super-embedding+formalism">current</a>

   Added pointer to early consideration of the idea of superstring sigma-models where both the worldsheet as well as the target spacetime are treated as supermanifolds (under the name “supersymmetry squared”):

   • S. James Gates Jr., Hitoshi Nishino: $D = 2$ superfield supergravity, local $(supersymmetry)^2$ and non-linear 2 models, Classical and Quantum Gravity 3 3 (1986) 391-399 [doi:10.1088/0264-9381/3/3/013, spire:217518]

   • R. Brooks, F. Muhammad, S. James Gates Jr.: Matter Coupled to $D=2$ Simple Unidexterous Supergravity, Local $(Supersymmetry)^2$ and Strings, Class. Quant. Grav. 3 5 (1986) 745-751 [doi:10.1088/0264-9381/3/5/005, spire:237390]

   diff, v36, current