Toroidal p-branes, anharmonic oscillators and (hyper)elliptic solutions

Exact solvability of brane equations is studied, and a new U(1)×U(1)×⋯×U(1) invariant anzats for the solution of p-brane equations in D=(2p+1)-dimensional Minkowski space is proposed. The reduction of the p-brane Hamiltonian to the Hamiltonian of p-dimensional relativistic anharmonic oscillator with the monomial potential of the degree equal to 2p is revealed. For the case of degenerate p-torus with equal radii it is shown that the p-brane equations are integrable and their solutions are expressed in terms of elliptic (p=2) or hyperelliptic (p>2) functions. The solution describes contracting p-brane with the contraction time depending on p and the brane energy density. The toroidal brane elasticity is found to break down linear Hooke law as it takes place for the anharmonic elasticity of smectic liquid crystals.