A non-perturbative description of the Gimon-Polchinski orientifold

DOI10.1016/S0550-3213(97)00074-6zbMATH Open0925.81242arXivhep-th/9611186MaRDI QIDQ674493FDOQ674493

Authors: Ashoke Sen 

Publication date: 5 March 1997

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

Abstract: A T-dual version of the Gimon-Polchinski orientifold can be described by a configuration of intersecting Dirichlet seven branes and orientifold seven planes in the classical limit. We study modification of this background due to quantum corrections. It is shown that non-perturbative effects split each orientifold plane into a pair of nearly parallel seven branes. Furthermore, a pair of intersecting orientifold planes, instead of giving rise to two pairs of intersecting seven branes, gives just one pair of seven branes, each representing a pair of nearly orthogonal seven branes smoothly joined to each other near the would be intersection point. Interpretation of these results from the point of view of the dynamics on a three brane probe is also discussed.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9611186

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zbMATH Keywords

classical limitgauge groupsintersecting Dirichlet seven-branesintersection pointT-dual Gimon-Polchinski orientifold

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

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• Monopoles, duality and chiral symmetry breaking in \(N=2\) supersymmetric QCD
• String theory dynamics in various dimensions

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• F-theory, Seiberg-Witten curves and \(\mathcal{N} = {2}\) dualities
• Mirror symmetries for brane configurations and branes at singularities
• Orientifold planes, type-I Wilson lines and non-BPS D-branes
• F-theory and the Gimon-Polchinski orientifold
• Field theory questions for string theory answers
• Monads and D-instantons
• Off-shell crosscap state and orientifold planes with background dilatons

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