Self-duality of Born-Infeld action and Dirichlet 3-brane of type IIB superstring theory
Abstract
D-brane actions depend on a world-volume abelian vector field and are described by Born-Infeld-type actions. We consider the vector field duality transformations of these actions. Like the usual 2d scalar duality rotations of isometric string coordinates imply target space T-duality, this vector duality is intimately connected with SL (2, Z)- symmetry of type IIB superstring theory. We find that in parallel with generalised 4-dimensional Born-Infeld action, the action of 3-brane of type IIB theory is SL(2, Z) self-dual. This indicates that 3-brane should play a special role in type IIB theory and also suggests a possibility of its 12-dimensional reformulation.
- Publication:
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Nuclear Physics B
- Pub Date:
- February 1996
- DOI:
- 10.1016/0550-3213(96)00173-3
- arXiv:
- arXiv:hep-th/9602064
- Bibcode:
- 1996NuPhB.469...51T
- Keywords:
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- High Energy Physics - Theory
- E-Print:
- 22 pages, harvmac (minor changes)