Branes, orientifolds and the creation of elementary strings

Oren Bergman; Matthias R. Gaberdiel; Gilad Lifschytz

doi:10.1016/S0550-3213(97)00632-9

Branes, orientifolds and the creation of elementary strings

Oren Bergman, Matthias R. Gaberdiel, Gilad Lifschytz

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The potential of a configuration of two Dirichlet branes for which the number of ND-directions is eight is determined. Depending on whether one of the branes is an anti-brane or a brane, the potential vanishes or is twice as large as the dilaton-gravitational potential. This is shown to be related to the fact that a fundamental string is created when two such branes cross. Special emphasis is given to the D0-D8 system, for which an interpretation of these results in terms of the massive IIA supergravity is presented. It is also shown that the branes cannot move non-adiabatically in the transverse direction. The configuration of a zero-brane and an orientifold 8-plane is analyzed in a similar way, and the implications for the type IA-heterotic duality and the heterotic matrix theory are discussed.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	194-215
Number of pages	22
Journal	Nuclear Physics B
Volume	509
Issue number	1-2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/S0550-3213(97)00632-9
State	Published - 5 Jan 1998
Externally published	Yes

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Funding Information:
We thankS . Deser,M .B. Green,A . HananyJ,. Polchinski,S.J. Rey, C. Vafa, E. Witten and B. Zwiebachf or useful discussions. O.B. is supporteidn part by the NSF underg rantsP HY-93-15811a ndPHY-92-18167, and M.R.G. is supportedb y a NATO-Fellowshipa nd in part by NSF grant PHY-92-

Keywords

D-branes
Heterotic matrix model
Massive IIA supergravity

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Nuclear and High Energy Physics

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