String Theory in Electromagnetic Fields

Details String Theory in Electromagnetic Fields String Theory in Electromagnetic Fields

2000-12-11

arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0012092v3

JHEP 0302 (2003) 026

Physics

High Energy Physics

High Energy Physics - Theory

32 pages RevTeX; V2: Acknowledgments and references added; V3: Typos corrected and references updated

Scientific paper

10.1088/1126-6708/2003/02/026

A review of various aspects of superstrings in background electromagnetic fields is presented. Topics covered include the Born-Infeld action, spectrum of open strings in background gauge fields, the Schwinger mechanism, finite-temperature formalism and Hagedorn behaviour in external fields, Debye screening, D-brane scattering, thermodynamics of D-branes, and noncommutative field and string theories on D-branes. The electric field instabilities are emphasized throughout and contrasted with the case of magnetic fields. A new derivation of the velocity-dependent potential between moving D-branes is presented, as is a new result for the velocity corrections to the one-loop thermal effective potential.

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