Three pronged strings and 1/4 BPS states in N=4 superYang-Mills theory

Bergman, Oren

doi:10.1016/S0550-3213(98)00345-9

Three pronged strings and 1/4 BPS states in N=4 superYang-Mills theory

Oren Bergman
(
- Harvard U.
)

Dec, 1997

14 pages

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Nucl.Phys.B 525 (1998) 104-116

e-Print:

hep-th/9712211 [hep-th]

DOI:

10.1016/S0550-3213(98)00345-9

Report number:

HUTP-97-A104

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Abstract:

We provide an explicit construction of 1/4 BPS states in four-dimensional N=4 Super-Yang-Mills theory with a gauge group SU(3). These states correspond to three-pronged strings connecting three D3-branes. We also find curves of marginal stability in the moduli space of the theory, at which the above states can decay into two 1/2 BPS states.

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LaTex file, 15 pages, 5 postscript figures; misprints corrected, references added, comment on spin>1 added at the end of section 4.1 Report-no: HUTP-97/A104

11.25.-w
11.15.-q
11.30.Pb
gauge field theory: Yang-Mills
supersymmetry
soliton
phase space
moduli space
membrane model: D-brane
membrane model: p-brane

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