D-brane worldvolume pullbacks

ID: d-brane-worldvolume-pullbacks

The brane embedding pulls the spacetime metric and two-form back to the worldvolume. The dilaton is evaluated at that embedding. If the quoted tension includes the constant-background factor , use ; otherwise use and a tension coefficient independent of that factor. These are normalization conventions for the same Dirac-Born-Infeld action.

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