Open strings, Born--Infeld action and the heat kernel
Abstract
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In the derivation of the Born-Infeld action for the case with a nontrivial boundary of the string world sheet the appearance of a new term changes the conformal anomaly. This may have many consequences, especially also in the study of generalized interacting brane systems.
9 pages, an important note is added at the end of the paper
9 pages, an important note is added at the end of the paper