Instanton moduli and brane creation

DOI10.1016/S0550-3213(99)00478-2MaRDI QIDQ1572512zbMATH OpenWikidataFDO

Authors E. Lima, Burt A. Ovrut, Hong Lü, Christopher N. Pope

Publication date 12 July 2000

Published in Nuclear Physics B (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9903001

zbMATH Keywords

phase transitionsblack holesheterotic string\(K3\) manifoldintersecting 5-brane solutionpp-wave solutionstring solution

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

(K3) surfaces and Enriques surfaces (14J28) String and superstring theories; other extended objects (e.g., branes) in quantum field theory (81T30) Black holes (83C57) String and superstring theories in gravitational theory (83E30) Relationships between surfaces, higher-dimensional varieties, and physics (14J81)

Abstract: We obtain new intersecting 5-brane, string and pp-wave solutions in the heterotic string on a torus and on a K3 manifold. In the former case the 5-brane is supported by Yang-Mills instantons, and in the latter case both the 5-brane and the string are supported by the instantons. The instanton moduli are parameterised by the sizes and locations of the instantons. We exhibit two kinds of phase transition in which, for suitable choices of the instanton moduli, a 5-brane and/or a string can be created. One kind of phase transition occurs when the size of an instanton vanishes, while the other occurs when a pair of Yang-Mills instantons coalesce. We also study the associated five-dimensional black holes and the implications of these phase transitions for the black-hole entropy. Specifically, we find that the entropy of the three-charge black holes is zero when the instantons are separated and of non-zero scale size, but becomes non-zero (which can be counted miscrospically) after either of the phase transitions.

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• Vortex pair creation on brane-antibrane pair via marginal deformation
• Anomalous creation of branes
• Supercharges, Killing spinors and intersecting gauge five-branes

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