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arxiv: hep-th/9907179 · v1 · submitted 1999-07-24 · ✦ hep-th

Path integral evaluation of Dbrane amplitudes

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keywords integralpathamplitudesdbranesevaluationstringamplitudeboundaries
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We extend Polchinski's evaluation of the measure for the one-loop closed string path integral to open string tree amplitudes with boundaries and crosscaps embedded in Dbranes. We explain how the nonabelian limit of near-coincident Dbranes emerges in the path integral formalism. We give a careful path integral derivation of the cylinder amplitude including the modulus dependence of the volume of the conformal Killing group.

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