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Supersymmetric Born-Infeld from the Pure Spinor Formalism of the Open Superstring

High Energy Physics - Theory 2011-07-19 v2

Abstract

Classical BRST invariance in the pure spinor formalism for the open superstring is shown to imply the supersymmetric Born-Infeld equations of motion for the background fields. These equations are obtained by requiring that the left and right-moving BRST currents are equal on the worldsheet boundary in the presence of the background. The Born-Infeld equations are expressed in N=1 D=10 superspace and include all abelian contributions to the low-energy equations of motion, as well as the leading non-abelian contributions.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/0205154,
  title  = {Supersymmetric Born-Infeld from the Pure Spinor Formalism of the Open Superstring},
  author = {Nathan Berkovits and Vladimir Pershin},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/0205154},
  year   = {2011}
}

Comments

Added footnote 3 in agreement with the comments of Schiappa and Wyllard in hep-th/0503123