Branes, Instantons, And Taub-NUT Spaces

Feb, 2009
64 pages
Published in:
  • JHEP 06 (2009) 067
e-Print:
Report number:
  • CERN-TH-PH-2009-019,
  • CERN-PH-TH-2009-019

Citations per year

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Abstract: (arXiv)
ALE and Taub-NUT (or ALF) hyper-Kahler four-manifolds can be naturally constructed as hyper-Kahler quotients. In the ALE case, this construction has long been understood in terms of D-branes/ here we give a D-brane derivation in the Taub-NUT case. Likewise, instantons on ALE spaces and on Taub-NUT spaces have ADHM-like constructions related to hyper-Kahler quotients. Here we refine the analysis in the Taub-NUT case by making use of a D-brane probe, and give an application to M-theory.
  • space: Taub-NUT
  • D-brane
  • instanton
  • membrane model
  • M-theory
  • space: Kaehler
  • p-brane
  • fibre bundle
  • charge
  • duality