Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Theory
Scientific paper
2001-01-31
Commun.Math.Phys. 225 (2002) 33-66
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Theory
Latex, 50 pages; v2: added 2 references and corrected typos; v3: new section on the homotopy associative algebraic structure,
Scientific paper
10.1007/s002201000569
We investigate the deformation of D-brane world-volumes in curved backgrounds. We calculate the leading corrections to the boundary conformal field theory involving the background fields, and in particular we study the correlation functions of the resulting system. This allows us to obtain the world-volume deformation, identifying the open string metric and the noncommutative deformation parameter. The picture that unfolds is the following: when the gauge invariant combination \omega = B + F is constant one obtains the standard Moyal deformation of the brane world-volume. Similarly, when d\omega = 0 one obtains the noncommutative Kontsevich deformation, physically corresponding to a curved brane in a flat background. When the background is curved, H = d\omega \not= 0, we find that the relevant algebraic structure is still based on the Kontsevich expansion, which now defines a nonassociative star product with an A_\infty homotopy associative algebraic structure. We then recover, within this formalism, some known results of Matrix theory in curved backgrounds. In particular, we show how the effective action obtained in this framework describes, as expected, the dielectric effect of D-branes. The polarized branes are interpreted as a soliton, associated to the condensation of the brane gauge field.
Cornalba Lorenzo
Schiappa Ricardo
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