On the covariance of the Dirac-Born-Infeld-Myers action Export

@misc{citeulike:771205, abstract = {A simple, fully covariant generalisation of the DBI action to the non-abelian case is proposed. The non-abelian degrees of freedom are incorporated by adjoining to the (bosonic) worldvolume of the brane a number of anticommuting fermionic directions corresponding to boundary fermions in the string picture. The proposed action treats these variables as classical but there is a straightforward interpretation in terms of matrices. The gauge-fixed action is shown to be in agreement with the Myers action derived from T-duality. It is also shown that the requirement of covariance in the above sense leads to a modified WZ term which again agrees with Myers.}, archivePrefix = {arXiv}, author = {Howe, P. S. and Lindstrom, U. and Wulff, L.}, citeulike-article-id = {771205}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0607156}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://arxiv.org/pdf/hep-th/0607156}, day = {21}, eprint = {hep-th/0607156}, keywords = {dirac-born-infeld, noncummutative}, month = {Jul}, posted-at = {2006-07-24 15:31:36}, priority = {2}, title = {On the covariance of the Dirac-Born-Infeld-Myers action}, url = {http://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0607156}, year = {2006} }

TY - ELEC ID - citeulike:771205 L3 - citeulike-article-id:771205 N2 - A simple, fully covariant generalisation of the DBI action to the non-abelian case is proposed. The non-abelian degrees of freedom are incorporated by adjoining to the (bosonic) worldvolume of the brane a number of anticommuting fermionic directions corresponding to boundary fermions in the string picture. The proposed action treats these variables as classical but there is a straightforward interpretation in terms of matrices. The gauge-fixed action is shown to be in agreement with the Myers action derived from T-duality. It is also shown that the requirement of covariance in the above sense leads to a modified WZ term which again agrees with Myers. TI - On the covariance of the Dirac-Born-Infeld-Myers action KW - dirac-born-infeld KW - noncummutative AU - Howe, PS AU - Lindstrom, U AU - Wulff, L PY - 2006/Jul/21/ UR - http://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0607156 ER -