Monday, July 2, 2012

1206.6964 (Tsuguhiko Asakawa et al.)

D-branes in Generalized Geometry and Dirac-Born-Infeld Action    [PDF]

Tsuguhiko Asakawa, Shuhei Sasa, Satoshi Watamura
The purpose of this paper is to formulate the Dirac-Born-Infeld (DBI) action in a framework of generalized geometry and clarify its symmetry. A D-brane is defined as a Dirac structure where scalar fields and gauge field are treated on an equal footing in a static gauge. We derive generalized Lie derivatives corresponding to the diffeomorphism and B-field gauge transformations and show that the DBI action is invariant under non-linearly realized symmetries for all types of diffeomorphisms and B-field gauge transformations. Consequently, we can interpret not only the scaler field but also the gauge field on the D-brane as the generalized Nambu-Goldstone boson.
View original: http://arxiv.org/abs/1206.6964

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