Aspects of Born-Infeld theory and string/M-theory

By G. W. Gibbons. 2001

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These notes provide a hopefully pedagogic introduction to Born-Infeld theory and some of its uses in String/M-Theory from the perspective of some-one interested in spacetime geometry. Causality and the consequences of having both the open string and closed string metric are stressed. This leads to some new insighst into old problems, such as strings at finite temperature. Various strong coupling limits of both Born-Infeld and the M5-brane theories are described and their relevance for tachyon condensations are mentioned.

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Black hole chemistry: thermodynamics with Lambda (2016, background): “This quantity can be related to the string tension in the context of string theory [85], with = πα′ b 1 2 .”
Born–Infeld inspired modifications of gravity (2017, unknown): “For more detailed information we refer to [303, 181, 228] or standard textbooks on string theory where the Born-Infeld Lagrangian naturally appears, as e.”
Photon and graviton mass limits (2008, background): “More recently their ideas have been revived because the kind of structure they discussed arises nat- 4 urally in string theory,2 as reviewed by Tseytlin and by Gibbons (13; 14).”
Extended phase space thermodynamics for charged and rotating black holes and Born-Infeld vacuum polarization (2012, background): “[20], b can also be related to string tension, b = 1 2πα .”