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Non-Abelian Born-Infeld versus String Theory

High Energy Physics - Theory 2009-10-31 v1

Abstract

Motivated by the results of Hashimoto and Taylor, we perform a detailed study of the mass spectrum of the non-abelian Born-Infeld theory, defined by the symmetrized trace prescription, on tori with constant magnetic fields turned on. Subsequently, we compare this for several cases to the mass spectrum of intersecting D-branes. Exact agreement is found in only two cases: BPS configurations on the four-torus and coinciding tilted branes. Finally we investigate the fluctuation dynamics of an arbitrarily wrapped Dp-brane with flux.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/0002180,
  title  = {Non-Abelian Born-Infeld versus String Theory},
  author = {Frederik Denef and Alexander Sevrin and Jan Troost},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/0002180},
  year   = {2009}
}

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