In this appendix, I very briefly mention the superspace formulation for type IIA [136
] and
IIB [309
] and
[153
, 117
] supergravity theories. The first goal is to set the relevant notation
for the superfield components describing the physical massless fields coupling to the brane effective action
degrees of freedom described in the main text. These are the physical fields appearing in the standard
component formulation of these theories, i.e., 11-dimensional supergravity [154
], its dimensional
reduction [233] and type IIB [440, 309
]. The second goal is to present the set of constraints satisfied by
these superfields ensuring both formulations are on-shell equivalent. The latter are crucial to prove
the kappa symmetry invariance of brane effective actions in curved backgrounds discussed in
Section 3.5.
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