Branes, orientifolds and the creation of elementary strings

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DOI10.1016/S0550-3213(97)00632-9zbMATH Open0933.81027arXivhep-th/9705130MaRDI QIDQ1374345FDOQ1374345


Authors: Oren Bergman, Gilad Lifschytz, Matthias R. Gaberdiel Edit this on Wikidata


Publication date: 2 December 1997

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

Abstract: The potential of a configuration of two Dirichlet branes for which the number of ND-directions is eight is determined. Depending on whether one of the branes is an anti-brane or a brane, the potential vanishes or is twice as large as the dilaton-gravitational potential. This is shown to be related to the fact that a fundamental string is created when two such branes cross. Special emphasis is given to the D0-D8 system, for which an interpretation of these results in terms of the massive IIA supergravity is presented. It is also shown that the branes cannot move non-adiabatically in the transverse direction. The configuration of a zero brane and an orientifold 8-plane is analyzed in a similar way, and some implications for the type IA-heterotic duality and the heterotic matrix theory are discussed.


Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9705130




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