Nonabelian Born-Infeld from Super-Yang-Mills effective action

Abstract

We discuss recent results on one-loop contributions to the effective action in {\cal N}=4 supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory in four dimensions. Contributions with five external vector fields are compared with corresponding ones in open superstring theory in order to understand the relation with the F^5 terms that appear in the nonabelian generalization of the Born-Infeld action.

6 pages, to appear in the proceedings of the RTN meeting ``The Quantum Structure of Spacetime and the Geometric Nature of Fundamental Interactions'', (Corfu`, September 2001)

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