An Associative and Noncommutative Product for the Low Energy Effective Theory of a D-Brane in Curved Backgrounds and Bi-Local Fields

TL;DR

This paper develops a new associative, noncommutative product for the low energy effective theory of D-branes in curved backgrounds with non-zero B-field strength, leading to a bi-local, higher-dimensional, and non-local gauge theory.

Contribution

It introduces an associative, noncommutative product for open string endpoints in curved backgrounds, resulting in a bi-local, higher-dimensional effective gauge theory.

Findings

Constructed an associative, noncommutative product for string endpoints.

Proposed a bi-local effective action in doubled dimensions.

Outlined a method to reduce bi-local theory to local D-dimensional form.

Abstract

We point out that when a D-brane is placed in an NS-NS B field background with non-vanishing field strength (H=dB) along the D-brane worldvolume, the coordinate of one end of the open string does not commute with that of the other in the low energy limit. The degrees of the freedom associated with both ends are not decoupled and accordingly, the effective action must be quite different from that of the ordinary noncommutative gauge theory for a constant B background. We construct an associative and noncommutative product which operates on the coordinates of both ends of the string and propose a new type of noncommutative gauge action for the low energy effective theory of a Dp-brane. This effective theory is bi-local and lives in twice as large dimensions (2D=2(p+1)) as in the H=0 case. When viewed as a theory in the D-dimensional space, this theory is non-local and we must force the two ends of the string to coincide. We will then propose a prescription for reducing this bi-local effective action to that in D dimensions and obtaining a local effective action.