2001/05/28 by Eric Bergshoeff, E. A. Bergshoeff, A. Bilal +5
Mathematics · Physics and Astronomy · #Abelian group #Action (physics) #Black Holes and Theoretical Physics #Curvature #Fermion #Geometry #Mathematical physics #Mathematics #Noncommutative and Quantum Gravity Theories #Order (exchange) #Particle physics #Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies #Physics #Pure mathematics #Quantum mechanics #Scattering #Scattering amplitude #Superstring theory #Supersymmetry #Symmetry (geometry) #Theoretical physics #hep-th
paper · pdf · doi:10.1088/1126-6708/2001/07/029
published as JHEP 0107:029,2001 · 26 pages, Latex
arxiv created 2001/05/28 · openalex publication_date 2001/07/23 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/06
We determine the non-abelian Born-Infeld action, including fermions, as it results from the four-point tree-level open superstring scattering amplitudes at order alpha'2. We find that, after an appropriate field redefinition all terms at this order can be written as a symmetrised trace. We confront this action with the results that follow from kappa-symmetry and conclude that the recently proposed non-abelian kappa-symmetry cannot be extended to cubic orders in the Born-Infeld curvature.