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The non-abelian Born-Infeld action at order F^6

High Energy Physics - Theory 2009-11-07 v1

Abstract

To gain insight into the non-abelian Born-Infeld (NBI) action, we study coinciding D-branes wrapped on tori, and turn on magnetic fields on their worldvolume. We then compare predictions for the spectrum of open strings stretching between these D-branes, from perturbative string theory and from the effective NBI action. Under some plausible assumptions, we find corrections to the Str-prescription for the NBI action at order F^6. In the process we give a way to classify terms in the NBI action that can be written in terms of field strengths only, in terms of permutation group theory.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/0101192,
  title  = {The non-abelian Born-Infeld action at order F^6},
  author = {Alexander Sevrin and Jan Troost and Walter Troost},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/0101192},
  year   = {2009}
}

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LaTeX, 31 pages, 30 figures