Geometric Actions for D-Branes and M-Branes
High Energy Physics - Theory
2009-10-31 v2
Abstract
New forms of Born-Infeld, D-brane and M theory five-brane actions are found which are quadratic in the abelian field strength. The gauge fields couple both to a background or induced metric and a new auxiliary metric, whose elimination reproduces the non-polynomial Born-Infeld action. This is similar to the introduction of an auxiliary metric to simplify the Nambu-Goto string action. This simplifies the quantisation and dualisation of the gauge fields.
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@article{arxiv.hep-th/9802179,
title = {Geometric Actions for D-Branes and M-Branes},
author = {M. Abou Zeid and C. M. Hull},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/9802179},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
LaTeX, 9 pages, no figures. Minor corrections; version to appear in Physics Letters B