On the non-abelian Born-Infeld action

1999/09/22 by P. Bain, Pascal Bain, Bain, P. · 1 citation
Physics and Astronomy · #Black Holes and Theoretical Physics #Cosmology and Gravitation Theories #FOS: Physical sciences #High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th) #Noncommutative and Quantum Gravity Theories #hep-th

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.hep-th/9909154

5 pages, 2 figures, LaTeX, uses cargese.cls (included). To appear in the gong show section of the proceedings of Cargese'99 summer school "Progress in String Theory and M-theory"

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Abstract

We discuss some aspects of the generalization of the Born-Infeld action to non-abelian gauge groups and show how the discrepancy between Tseytlin's symmetrized trace proposal and string theory can be corrected at order F⁶. We also comment on the possible quadratic order fermionic terms.

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