Nonlocal effects on D-branes in plane wave backgrounds

Oct, 2002
18 pages
Published in:
  • JHEP 11 (2002) 051
e-Print:
Report number:
  • UCB-PTH-02-40,
  • LBNL-51535

Citations per year

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Abstract: (arXiv)
We argue that the effective field theory on D3-branes in a plane-wave background with 3-form flux is a nonlocal deformation of Yang-Mills theory. In the case of NSNS flux, it is a dipole field theory with lightlike dipole vectors. For an RR 3-form flux the dipole theory is strongly coupled. We propose a weakly coupled S-dual description for it. The S-dual description is local at any finite order in string perturbation theory but becomes nonlocal when all perturbation theory orders are summed together.
Note:
  • 19 pages, a few sentences added and $L^+$ changed to $L^-$
  • membrane model: D-brane
  • membrane model: p-brane
  • p-brane: 3
  • gauge field theory: Yang-Mills
  • dimension: 10
  • plane wave: background field
  • effective action
  • deformation: nonlocal
  • operator: vertex
  • scattering amplitude
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