A Two-Loop Test of M(atrix) Theory
High Energy Physics - Theory
2009-10-30 v2
Abstract
We consider the scattering of two Dirichlet zero-branes in M(atrix) theory. Using the formulation of M(atrix) theory in terms of ten-dimensional super Yang-Mills theory dimensionally reduced to -dimensions, we obtain the effective (velocity dependent) potential describing these particles. At one-loop we obtain the well known result for the leading order of the effective potential , where and are the relative velocity and distance between the two zero-branes respectively. A calculation of the effective potential at two-loops shows that no renormalizations of the -term of the effective potential occur at this order.
Cite
@article{arxiv.hep-th/9705091,
title = {A Two-Loop Test of M(atrix) Theory},
author = {Katrin Becker and Melanie Becker},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/9705091},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
17 pages, tex, 1 figure, a few misprints corrected. Version to appear in Nuclear Physics B