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Non-abelian Born-Infeld and kappa-symmetry

High Energy Physics - Theory 2009-10-31 v1

Abstract

We define an iterative procedure to obtain a non-abelian generalization of the Born-Infeld action. This construction is made possible by the use of the severe restrictions imposed by kappa-symmetry. In this paper we will present all bosonic terms in the action up to terms quartic in the Yang-Mills field strength and all fermion bilinear terms up to terms cubic in the field strength. Already at this order the fermionic terms do not satisfy the symmetric trace-prescription.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/0011018,
  title  = {Non-abelian Born-Infeld and kappa-symmetry},
  author = {E. A. Bergshoeff and M. de Roo and A. Sevrin},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/0011018},
  year   = {2009}
}

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26 pages, Latex