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Towards a supersymmetric non-abelian Born-Infeld theory

High Energy Physics - Theory 2008-11-26 v1

Abstract

We define an iterative procedure to obtain a non-abelian generalization of the Born-Infeld action. This construction is made possible by the use of the severe restrictions imposed by kappa-symmetry. We have calculated all bosonic terms in the action up to terms quartic in the Yang-Mills field strength and all fermion bilinear terms up to terms cubic in the field strength. Already at this order the fermionic terms do not satisfy the symmetric trace-prescription.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/0010151,
  title  = {Towards a supersymmetric non-abelian Born-Infeld theory},
  author = {E. Bergshoeff and M. de Roo and A. Sevrin},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/0010151},
  year   = {2008}
}

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9 pp. Latex, to appear in the proceedings of the Strings 2000 conference