Compact T-branes

Jul 12, 2017
36 pages
Published in:
  • JHEP 09 (2017) 132
  • Published: Sep 26, 2017
e-Print:
Report number:
  • IFT-UAM-CSIC-17-063

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Abstract: (Springer)
We analyse global aspects of 7-brane backgrounds with a non-commuting profile for their worldvolume scalars, also known as T-branes. In particular, we consider configurations with no poles and globally well-defined over a compact Kähler surface. We find that such T-branes cannot be constructed on surfaces of positive or vanishing Ricci curvature. For the existing T-branes, we discuss their stability as we move in Kähler moduli space at large volume and provide examples of T-branes splitting into non-mutually-supersymmetric constituents as they cross a stability wall.
Note:
  • 37 pages, 1 figure, 2 appendices; minor corrections and reference added
  • D-branes
  • Superstring Vacua
  • Differential and Algebraic Geometry
  • Supersymmetric Effective Theories
  • curvature: Ricci
  • stability
  • surface
  • membrane model
  • moduli space
  • background