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A Rule of Thumb Derivation of Born-Infeld Action for D-branes

Rika Endo, Rie Kuriki, Shin'ichi Nojiri, Akio Sugamoto

hep-tharXiv:hep-th/9801037

Abstract

A rule of thumb derivation of the Dirac-Born-Infeld action for D-branes is studied à la Fradkin and Tseytlin, by simply integrating out of the superstring coordinates in a narrow strip attached to the D-branes. In case of superstrings, the coupling of Ramond-Ramond fields as well as the Dirac-Born-Infeld type coupling of the Neveu Schwarz-Neveu Schwarz fields come out in this way.

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