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

被引:128
作者
Yi, PJ [1 ]
机构
[1] Cornell Univ, Newman Lab Nucl Studies, Ithaca, NY 14853 USA
[2] Korea Inst Adv Study, Sch Phys, Dongdaemun Gu, Seoul 130012, South Korea
关键词
brane; world-volume soliton; confinement; Higgs effect;
D O I
10.1016/S0550-3213(99)00191-1
中图分类号
O412 [相对论、场论]; O572.2 [粒子物理学];
学科分类号
摘要
We argue that the 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. The 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 held on D4-anti-D4, where the confined electric flux string is identified as the fundamental string. This generalizes to other Dp-anti-Dp systems, and solves a puzzle recently pointed out by Witten. (C) 1999 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.
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页码:214 / 224
页数:11
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