Born-Infeld String as a Boundary Conformal Field Theory

1997/10/31 by Larus Thorlacius, Lárus Thorlacius · 7 citations
Physics and Astronomy · #Black Holes and Theoretical Physics #hep-th

paper · pdf · doi:10.1103/physrevlett.80.1588

published as Phys.Rev.Lett. 80 (1998) 1588-1590 · 8 pages, 1 figure, latex, references added

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Abstract

Solutions of the Born-Infeld theory, representing strings extending from a Dirichlet p-brane, are also solutions of the higher derivative generalization of the Born-Infeld equations defining an exact open-string vacuum configuration.

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