D-branes and short distances in string theory

DOI10.1016/S0550-3213(96)00619-0zbMATH Open0925.81232arXivhep-th/9608024MaRDI QIDQ2565166FDOQ2565166

Philippe Pouliot, Stephen H. Shenker, Michael R. Douglas, Daniel Kabat

Publication date: 14 January 1997

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

Abstract: We study the behavior of D-branes at distances far shorter than the string length scale~$l_s$. We argue that short-distance phenomena are described by the IR behavior of the D-brane world-volume quantum theory. This description is valid until the brane motion becomes relativistic. At weak string coupling $gs$ this corresponds to momenta and energies far above string scale. We use 0-brane quantum mechanics to study 0-brane collisions and find structure at length scales corresponding to the eleven-dimensional Planck length ($lp11simg{s}^{1/3}{l}_s$) and to the radius of the eleventh dimension in M-theory ($R11simgs{l}_s$). We use 0-branes to probe non-trivial geometries and topologies at sub-stringy scales. We study the 0-brane 4-brane system, calculating the 0-brane moduli space metric, and find the bound state at threshold, which has characteristic size $lp11$. We examine the blowup of an orbifold and are able to resolve the resulting $S^2$ down to size $lp11$. A 0-brane with momentum approaching $1/R11$ is able to explore a larger configuration space in which the blowup is embedded. Analogous phenomena occur for small instantons. We finally turn to 1-branes and calculate the size of a bound state to be $simg{s}^{1/2}{l}_s$, the 1-brane tension scale.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9608024

zbMATH Keywords

string theorytopology changenontrivial geometriesorbifold blowupworldvolume quantum theory

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

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