Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Theory
Scientific paper
2000-06-15
JHEP 0007 (2000) 012
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Theory
24 pages, a reference and discussion (about 1 page, sec. 3.3 and 4.1) added, typos corrected
Scientific paper
10.1088/1126-6708/2000/07/012
Rederiving the one-loop divergences for the most general coupling of the open string sigma model by the heat kernel technique, we distinguish the classical background field from the mean field of the effective action. The latter is arbitrary, i.e. does not fulfil the boundary conditions. As a consequence a new divergent counter term strongly suggests the introduction of another external one-form field (beside the usual gauge field), coupled to the normal derivative at the boundary. Actually such a field has been proposed in the literature for different reasons, but its full impact never seems to have thoroughly investigated before. The beta function for the resulting renormalizable model is calculated and the consequences are discussed, including the ones for the Born-Infeld action. The most exciting property of the new coupling is that it enters the coefficient in front of the normal derivative in Neumann boundary conditions. For certain values of the background fields this coefficient vanishes, leading to Dirichlet boundary conditions. This provides a natural mechanism for the emergence of D-branes.
Kummer Wolfgang
Vassilevich Dmitri V.
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