Probing orientifold behavior near NS branes

Aug, 2003
29 pages
Published in:
  • JHEP 03 (2004) 022
e-Print:
Report number:
  • RI-11-03

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Abstract:
The effect of NS 5 branes on an orientifold is studied. The orientifold is allowed to pass through a pile of k NS branes forming a regularized CHS geometry. Its effect on open strings in its vicinity is used to study the change in the orientifold charge induced by the NS branes.
  • membrane model: p-brane
  • membrane model: D-brane
  • orientifold
  • string: open
  • field theory: conformal
  • analytic properties
  • Wess-Zumino-Witten model: SU(2)
  • critical phenomena