Born-Infeld String as a Boundary Conformal Field Theory

TL;DR

This paper explores how solutions of Born-Infeld theory, describing strings attached to D-branes, serve as exact open string vacuum configurations within a higher derivative framework, linking string theory and conformal field theory.

Contribution

It demonstrates that Born-Infeld solutions can be viewed as boundary conformal field theories, providing a bridge between string solutions and conformal field theory descriptions.

Findings

Born-Infeld solutions are exact open string vacua.

These solutions extend to higher derivative theories.

They establish a connection between string solutions and boundary CFT.

Abstract

Solutions of 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.