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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 (0+1)(0+1)-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 Veffv4/r7V_{eff}\sim v^4/r^7, where vv and rr 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 v4v^4-term of the effective potential occur at this order.

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@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