The gauge invariance of the non-abelian Chern-Simons action for D-branes revisited

DOI10.1016/J.PHYSLETB.2004.03.049zbMATH Open1246.81186arXivhep-th/0312264OpenAlexW1991213527MaRDI QIDQ447181FDOQ447181

Authors: Joke Adam, Jos Gheerardyn, Bert Janssen, Yolanda Lozano 

Publication date: 9 September 2012

Published in: Physics Letters B (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We present an elegant method to prove the invariance of the Chern-Simons part of the non-Abelian action for N coinciding D-branes under the R-R and NS-NS gauge transformations, by carefully defining what is meant by a background gauge transformation in the non-Abelian world volume action. We study as well the invariance under massive gauge transformations of the massive Type IIA supergravity and show that no massive dielectric couplings are necessary to achieve this invariance. We show that this result is consistent with (massive) T-duality from the non-Abelian action for N D9-branes.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0312264

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zbMATH Keywords

massive Type IIA supergravitynon-abelian Chern-Simons action

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

String and superstring theories; other extended objects (e.g., branes) in quantum field theory (81T30) Supergravity (83E50)

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