On the Dirac-Born-Infeld action for D-branes
Journal article, 1996

In this note, we consider the reformulation of the Dirac-Born-Infeld action for a Dirichlet p-brane in Brink-Di Vecchia-Howe-Tucker form, i.e., including an independent non-propagating world-volume metric. When p>2, the action becomes non-polynomial. A closed expression is derived for p=3. For selfdual field-strengths, the DBI action is reproduced by an action with a simple F^2 term. We speculate on supersymmetrization of the D_3-brane action. We also give the governing equations for arbitrary p, and derive an implicit expression for the D_4-brane lagrangian.

Author

Martin Cederwall

Chalmers, Department of Theoretical Physics and Mechanics, Mathematical Physics

Alexander von Gussich

Department of Theoretical Physics

Aleksandar Mikovic

Bengt E W Nilsson

Chalmers, Department of Theoretical Physics and Mechanics, Mathematical Physics

Anders Westerberg

Department of Theoretical Physics

Phys.Lett.B390:148-152,1997

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