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On gravitational couplings in D-brane action

High Energy Physics - Theory 2009-11-07 v3

Abstract

We compute the two closed string graviton - two open string scalar scattering amplitude on the disc to show that there is no second-derivative curvature - scalar coupling term R X^2 in the low-energy effective action of a D-brane in curved space in type II superstring theory.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/0211101,
  title  = {On gravitational couplings in D-brane action},
  author = {A. Fotopoulos and A. A. Tseytlin},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/0211101},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

15 pages, 1 figure, LaTex JHEP style; v2: reference added, typos corrected; v3: section 2 rewritten due to an error in gauge fixing, appendix added, conclusions unchanged

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