Companion equations for branes

The quantum mechanical transition between a free particle Lagrangian and the Klein–Gordon field description of a free particle (particle-wave duality) is conjectured to extend to an analogous construction of relativistically invariant wave equations associated with strings and branes. Electromagnetic interactions in the two systems are discussed. It is emphasized that all integrable free field theories, including those of Dirac–Born–Infeld type, are associated with Lagrangians equivalent to divergences on the space of solutions of the equations of motion.