Abelian and non-abelian D-brane effective actions

DOI10.1002/PROP.200410171MaRDI QIDQ4651682zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

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Publication date 22 February 2005

Published in Fortschritte der Physik (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0405227

zbMATH Keywords

D-branessigma modelssuperspaces

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Functional analysis on superspaces (supermanifolds) or graded spaces (46S60) String and superstring theories; other extended objects (e.g., branes) in quantum field theory (81T30) String and superstring theories in gravitational theory (83E30)

Abstract: In this Ph.D. thesis we review and elaborate on a method to find the D-brane effective action, based on BPS equations. Firstly, both for the Yang-Mills action and the Born-Infeld action it is shown that these configurations are indeed BPS, i.e. solutions to these equations saturate a Bogomolny bound and leave some supersymmetry unbroken. Next, we use the BPS equations as a tool to construct the D-brane effective action and require that (a deformation of) these equations should still imply the equations of motion in more general cases. In the abelian case we managed to calculate all order in $alph{a}^{\prime }$ four-derivative corrections to the effective action and the BPS equations while in the non-abelian case we obtained the effective action up to order $alpha{\text{'}}^4$. Furthermore, we discuss a check based on the spectrum of strings stretching between intersecting branes. Finally, this Ph.D. thesis also discusses the construction of a boundary superspace which is the first step to use the method of Weyl invariance in N=2 superspace in order to again construct the D-brane effective action. A more detailed summary of each chapter can be found in the introduction.

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