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On Non-Abelian Structure From Matrix Coordinates

High Energy Physics - Theory 2009-11-07 v2 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

Abstract

We consider the matrix quantum mechanics of N D0-branes in the background of the 1-form RR field. It is observed that the transformations of matrix coordinates of D0-branes induce on the Abelian RR field symmetry transformations that are like those of non-Abelian gauge fields. The Lorentz-like equations of motion for matrix coordinates are derived. The field strengths appearing in the Lorentz-like equations transform in the adjoint representation of U(N) under symmetry transformations. A possible relation between D0-brane dynamics in RR background, and the semi-classical dynamics of charged particles in Yang-Mills background is mentioned.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/0103262,
  title  = {On Non-Abelian Structure From Matrix Coordinates},
  author = {Amir H. Fatollahi},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/0103262},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

12 pages, no figures, LaTeX. v2: typos fixed, to appear in Phys. Lett. B