Dual actions with respect to U(1) gauge fields for the Born-Infeld and Dp-brane theories are reexamined.Taking into account an additional condition,i.e.a corollary to the field equation of the auxiliary metric,one obt...Dual actions with respect to U(1) gauge fields for the Born-Infeld and Dp-brane theories are reexamined.Taking into account an additional condition,i.e.a corollary to the field equation of the auxiliary metric,one obtainsan alternative dual action that does not involve the infinite series in the auxiliary metric given by [M.Abou Zeid andC.M.Hull,Phys.Lett.B 428 (1998) 277],but just picks out the first term from the series formally.New effectiveinteractions of the theories are revealed.That is,the new dual action gives rise to an effective interaction in terms ofone interaction term rather than infinitely many terms of different (higher) orders of interactions physically.However,the price paid for eliminating the infinite series is that the new action is not quadratic but highly nonlinear in the Hodgedual of a (p-1)-form field strength.This non-linearity is inevitable under the requirement that the two dual actionsare equivalent.展开更多
基金Supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant No.10675061the Doctoral Foundation of the Ministry of Education of China under Grant No.20060055006
文摘Dual actions with respect to U(1) gauge fields for the Born-Infeld and Dp-brane theories are reexamined.Taking into account an additional condition,i.e.a corollary to the field equation of the auxiliary metric,one obtainsan alternative dual action that does not involve the infinite series in the auxiliary metric given by [M.Abou Zeid andC.M.Hull,Phys.Lett.B 428 (1998) 277],but just picks out the first term from the series formally.New effectiveinteractions of the theories are revealed.That is,the new dual action gives rise to an effective interaction in terms ofone interaction term rather than infinitely many terms of different (higher) orders of interactions physically.However,the price paid for eliminating the infinite series is that the new action is not quadratic but highly nonlinear in the Hodgedual of a (p-1)-form field strength.This non-linearity is inevitable under the requirement that the two dual actionsare equivalent.