%0 Journal Article
%T Topologica Defects and Corrections to the Nambu Action
%A Vanda Silveira
%A M. D. Maia
%J Physics
%D 1993
%I arXiv
%R 10.1016/0375-9601(93)90138-P
%X The effective action of a (1+2)-dimensional defect is obtained as an expansion in powers of the thickness.Considering non-straight solutions as the zero order term, the corrections to the Nambu action are found to depend on the curvature scalar and on the gaussian curvature .
%U http://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/9303017v1