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Open strings, Born--Infeld action and the heat kernel

W. Kummer, D. V. Vassilevich

hep-tharXiv:hep-th/0001125

Abstract

In the derivation of the Born-Infeld action for the case with a nontrivial boundary of the string world sheet the appearance of a new term changes the conformal anomaly. This may have many consequences, especially also in the study of generalized interacting brane systems.

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