Published February 1998 | Version v1
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Born-Infeld String as a Boundary Conformal Field Theory

Creators

  • 1. Joseph Henry Laboratories, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey 08544 (United States)

Description

Solutions of the Born-Infeld theory, representing strings extending from a Dirichlet p -brane, are also solutions of the higher derivative generalization of the Born-Infeld equations defining an exact open-string vacuum configuration. copyright 1998 The American Physical Society

Additional details

Publishing Information

Journal Title
Physical Review Letters
Journal Volume
80
Journal Issue
8
Journal Page Range
p. 1588-1590.
ISSN
0031-9007
CODEN
PRLTAO

INIS

Country of Publication
United States
Country of Input or Organization
United States
INIS RN
29036905
Subject category
S72: PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS;
Descriptors DEI
CONFORMAL INVARIANCE; DIRICHLET PROBLEM; EQUATIONS OF MOTION; FLUCTUATIONS; PERTURBATION THEORY; QUANTUM FIELD THEORY; SCALAR FIELDS; STRING MODELS; WAVE EQUATIONS
Descriptors DEC
BOUNDARY-VALUE PROBLEMS; DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; EQUATIONS; EXTENDED PARTICLE MODEL; FIELD THEORIES; INVARIANCE PRINCIPLES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; PARTICLE MODELS; VARIATIONS