D-brane Wess--Zumino actions, T-duality and the cosmological constant
High Energy Physics - Theory
2009-10-30 v3
Abstract
A geometrical formulation of the T-duality rules for type II superstring Ramond--Ramond fields is presented. This is used to derive the Wess-Zumino terms in superstring D-brane actions, including terms proportional to the mass parameter of the IIA theory, thereby completing partial results in the literature. For non-abelian world-volume gauge groups the massive type IIA D-brane actions contain non-abelian Chern--Simons terms for the Born--Infeld gauge potential, implying a quantization of the IIA cosmological constant.
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@article{arxiv.hep-th/9604119,
title = {D-brane Wess--Zumino actions, T-duality and the cosmological constant},
author = {Michael B. Green and Christopher M. Hull and Paul K. Townsend},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/9604119},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
Version to be published in Physics Letters (minor corrections)