1998/06/30 by Dongsu Bak, Joohan Lee, Hyunsoo Min
Physics and Astronomy · #Action (physics) #Black Holes and Theoretical Physics #Born–Infeld model #Brane #Classical mechanics #Cosmology and Gravitation Theories #Dirac (video compression format) #Geometry #Massless particle #Mathematical physics #Open string #Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies #Physics #Quantum electrodynamics #Quantum mechanics #Scalar (mathematics) #Scalar field #String (physics) #String field theory #String theory #Theoretical physics #hep-th
paper · pdf · doi:10.1103/physrevd.59.045011
published as Phys. Rev. D 59, 045011 (1999) · 19 pages, 4 figures References added, Typographical errors are corrected
arxiv created 1998/07/02 · openalex publication_date 1999/01/22 · arxiv updated 2016/08/24 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05
The Dirac-Born-Infeld action with transverse scalar fields is considered to study the dynamics of various Bogomol'nyi-Prasad-Sommerfield (BPS) states. We first describe the characteristic properties of the so-called 1/2 and 1/4 BPS states on the D3-brane, which can be interpreted as F- or D-strings ending on a D3-brane in a type IIB string theory picture. We then study the response of the BPS states to low energy excitations of massless fields on the brane, the scalar fields representing the shape fluctuation of the brane, and U(1) gauge fields describing the open string excitations on the D-brane. This leads to an identification of interactions between BPS states including the static potentials and the kinetic interactions.