Supersymmetric Non-abelian DBI Equations from Open Pure Spinor Superstring

Abstract

The BRST invariance of the open pure spinor superstring is examined in the presence of background superfields on a Dp-brane. We note that the background superfields introduced in this paper depend on boundary fermions. The BRST invariance leads to supersymmetric Dirac-Born-Infeld (DBI) equations for background superfields depending on boundary fermions as well as boundary conditions on spacetime coordinates. After quantizing boundary fermions, background superfields are promoted to non-abelian ones. As a result, we obtain the supersymmetric non-abelian DBI equations from the supersymmetric DBI equations depending on boundary fermions. It is shown that these non-abelian DBI equations reduce to the super-Yang-Mills equations in the limit alpha' -> 0. We also show the nilpotency of the BRST transformation of boundary fermions.