2001/03/20 by John H. Schwarz, Schwarz, John H.
Physics and Astronomy · #FOS: Physical sciences #High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th) #hep-th
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.hep-th/0103165
10 pages; talk presented at Strings 2001
arxiv created 2001/03/20 · arxiv updated 2009/11/30
The low-energy effective action of supersymmetric D-brane systems consists of two terms, one of which is of the Born-Infeld type and one of which is of the Chern-Simons type. I briefly review the status of our understanding of these terms for both the Abelian and non-Abelian cases.