•The Chaplygin gas model is equivalent to the (scalar) Dirac-Born-Infeld description of a D-brane
• R. Jackiw,
Lectures on Fluid Mechanics (Springer, 2002)
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•String
theory branes possess three features that are absent in the simple Nambu Goto p-dim membranes
•(i) support an Abelian gauge field Aμ reflecting
open strings with their ends stuck on the brane;
•(ii) couple to the dilaton Φ
•(iii)
couple to the (pull-back of)
• Kalb-Ramond field Bμν
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