Membranes from five-branes and fundamental strings from Dp-branes

DOI10.1016/S0550-3213(99)00191-1zbMATH Open0947.81075arXivhep-th/9901159OpenAlexW3101669850MaRDI QIDQ1572132FDOQ1572132

Piljin Yi

Publication date: 12 July 2000

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

Abstract: We argue that M2 brane is realized as a topological soliton on a coincident pair of M5 and anti-M5 branes, as the two five-branes annihilate each other. Topology and quantum numbers of this world-volume soliton are discussed in some detail, and its formation is explained qualitatively. It follows from a compactification that a D4-anti-D4 pair annihilate and produce type II fundamental strings. The phenomenon is best described as the confinement of a world-volume U(1) gauge field on D4-anti-D4, where the confined electric flux string is identified as the fundamental string. This generalizes to other D$p$-anti-D$p$ systems, and solves a puzzle recently pointed out by Witten.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9901159

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

String and superstring theories; other extended objects (e.g., branes) in quantum field theory (81T30)

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