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Quantum corrections to generic branes: DBI, NLSM, and more

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Peer-reviewed

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Authors

Goon, G 
Noller, J 

Abstract

We study quantum corrections to hypersurfaces of dimension d+1>2 embedded in generic higher-dimensional spacetimes. Manifest covariance is maintained throughout the analysis and our methods are valid for arbitrary co-dimension and arbitrary bulk metric. A variety of theories which are prominent in the modern amplitude literature arise as special limits: the scalar sector of Dirac-Born-Infeld theories and their multi-field variants, as well as generic non-linear sigma models and extensions thereof. Our explicit one-loop results unite the leading corrections of all such models under a single umbrella. In contrast to naive computations which generate effective actions that appear to violate the non-linear symmetries of their classical counterparts, our efficient methods maintain manifest covariance at all stages and make the symmetry properties of the quantum action clear. We provide an explicit comparison between our compact construction and other approaches and demonstrate the ultimate physical equivalence between the superficially different results.

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Keywords

Effective Field Theories, Global Symmetries, Renormalization Regularization and Renormalons, Space-Time Symmetries

Journal Title

Journal of High Energy Physics

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Journal ISSN

1029-8479
1029-8479

Volume Title

2021

Publisher

Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Sponsorship
Science and Technology Facilities Council (ST/P000673/1)
STFC (ST/T00049X/1)
STFC (ST/S004572/1)