Born-Infeld Action from Supergravity

  • 8 November 2002
Abstract
We show that the Born-Infeld action with the Wess-Zumino terms for the Ramond-Ramond fields, which is the D3-brane effective action, is a solution to the Hamilton-Jacobi equation in type IIB supergravity. Adopting the radial coordinate as time, we develop the ADM formalism for type IIB supergravity reduced on $S^5$ and derive the Hamilton-Jacobi equation, which is the classical limit of the Wheeler-De Witt equation and whose solutions are classical on-shell actions. Our solution reproduces the on-shell actions for the solution of a stack of D3-branes in $B_2$ field and its near-horizon limit, which is conjectured to be dual to noncommutative Yang Mills and reduces to $AdS_5 \times S^5$ in the commutative limit. Our D3-brane effective action is that of a probe D3-brane and the radial time corresponds to the vacuum expectation value of the Higgs field in the dual Yang Mills. Our findings can be applied to a study of the holographic renormalization group.

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