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On $(\alpha')^2$ corrections to the D-brane action for non-geodesic world-volume embeddings

High Energy Physics - Theory 2010-02-03 v2

Abstract

In hep-th/9903210 (curvature)2^2 terms of the effective D-brane action were derived to lowest order in the string coupling. Their results are correct up to ambiguous terms which involve the second fundamental form of the D-brane. We compute five point string amplitudes on the disk. We compare the subleading order in α\alpha' of the string amplitudes with the proposed lagrangian of hep-th/9903210 supplemented by the ambiguous terms. The comparison determines the complete form of the gravitational terms in the effective D-brane action to order \calO(α2){\calO}(\alpha^{' 2}). Our results are valid for arbitrary ambient geometries and world-volume embeddings.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/0104146,
  title  = {On $(\alpha')^2$ corrections to the D-brane action for non-geodesic world-volume embeddings},
  author = {A. Fotopoulos},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/0104146},
  year   = {2010}
}

Comments

34 pages, LaTeX, 4 Postscript figures, expanded introduction and conclusions, typos corrected, references added, final version to appear in JHEP09(2001)005