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CTP TAMU-21/01 hep-th/0106078 Strong Coupling Limit of Open String: Born-Infeld Analysis 1 0 0 2 I.Y. Park g u Center for Theoretical Physics, A Texas AM University, 4 1 College Station, Texas 77843 3 v 8 7 0 6 Abstract 0 1 0 We consider a large coupling limit of a Born-Infeld action in a curved back- / h ground of an arbitrary metric and a two form field. Following hep-th/0009061, t - p we go to the Hamiltonian description. The Hamiltonian can be dualized and the e h dual action admits a string-like configuration as its solution. We interpret it as : v a closed string configuration. The procedure can be viewed as a novel way of i X bringing out the appropriate degrees of freedom, a closed string, for a open string r a under the strong coupling limit. We argue that this interpretation implies a large number of dual pairs of gauge and gravity theories whose particular examples are AdS/CFT and matrix theory conjectures. 1 Introduction The fact that opens strings have end points gave rise to many interesting results in the recent progress of string theory. Most notably it led to the discovery of D-branes [1]. It is plausible that there are yet to be discovered physics associated with the end points, some of which could be important. In the studies of D-branes it has been fruitful to consider extreme values, such as zero or infinity, of various parameters of the system under consideration. This is,