Kappa-symmetric Derivative Corrections to D-brane Dynamics

Abstract

We show how the superembedding formalism can be applied to construct manifestly kappa-symmetric higher derivative corrections for the D9-brane. We also show that all correction terms appear at even powers of the fundamental length scale $l$. We explicitly construct the first potential correction, which corresponds to the kappa-symmetric version of the ${\partial }^4{F}^4$, which one finds from the four-point amplitude of the open superstring.

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