Open strings, Born--Infeld action and the heat kernel
High Energy Physics - Theory
2007-05-23 v2
Abstract
In the derivation of the Born-Infeld action for the case with a nontrivial boundary of the string world sheet the appearance of a new term changes the conformal anomaly. This may have many consequences, especially also in the study of generalized interacting brane systems.
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@article{arxiv.hep-th/0001125,
title = {Open strings, Born--Infeld action and the heat kernel},
author = {W. Kummer and D. V. Vassilevich},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/0001125},
year = {2007}
}
Comments
9 pages, an important note is added at the end of the paper