Dirac-Born-Infeld Action from Dirichlet Sigma Model

Sep 26, 1989
10 pages
Published in:
  • Mod.Phys.Lett.A 4 (1989) 2767
Report number:
  • UTTG-31-89

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Abstract: (WSP)
In a recent paper we discussed, among other things, the effect of duality transformations on the open bosonic string theory. Namely, we conjectured that a macroscopic object, the D-brane, effectively interacts with closed and open string modes in the low energy limit. This conjecture was supported by a string scattering amplitude calculation. In this letter we report on a σ-model calculation in the mixed Dirichlet-Neumann theory. We find an action of the Dirac-Born-Infeld type restricted to (26−k)-dimensions.
  • string model
  • membrane model: p-brane
  • duality
  • field theory: action
  • sigma model: nonlinear
  • background field
  • renormalization group: beta function
  • invariance: conformal