Membranes from five-branes and fundamental strings from Dp branes
Jan, 199912 pages
Published in:
- Nucl.Phys.B 550 (1999) 214-224
e-Print:
- hep-th/9901159 [hep-th]
Report number:
- CLNS-99-1602,
- KIAS-P99006
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Abstract:
We argue that 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. 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 field on D4-anti-D4, where the confined electric flux string is identified as the fundamental string. This generalizes to other D-anti-D systems, and solves a puzzle recently pointed out by Witten.Note:
- LaTeX, 12 pages (typos corrected and minor changes in the text) Report-no: CLNS-99/1602, KIAS-P99006
- 11.25.Sq
- 11.27.+d
- 11.15.-q
- 11.15.Ex
- Brane
- World-volume soliton
- Confinement
- Higgs effect
- membrane model: D-brane
- membrane model: p-brane
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