NonAbelian Born-Infeld and kappa symmetry

Nov, 2000
26 pages
Published in:
  • J.Math.Phys. 42 (2001) 2872-2888
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Report number:
  • UG-00-16,
  • VUB-TENA-00-08

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Abstract:
We define an iterative procedure to obtain a non-abelian generalization of the Born-Infeld action. This construction is made possible by the use of the severe restrictions imposed by kappa-symmetry. In this paper we will present all bosonic terms in the action up to terms quartic in the Yang-Mills field strength and all fermion bilinear terms up to terms cubic in the field strength. Already at this order the fermionic terms do not satisfy the symmetric trace-prescription.
  • Born-Infeld model: nonabelian
  • supersymmetry
  • transformation: gauge
  • field theory: action
  • Wess-Zumino term
  • membrane model: D-brane
  • kappa symmetry
  • gauge fixing