The Heterotic Life of the D-particle

Details The Heterotic Life of the D-particle The Heterotic Life of the D-particle

1996-10-11

arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9610082v1

Int.J.Mod.Phys. A12 (1997) 4581-4596

Physics

High Energy Physics

High Energy Physics - Theory

20 pages, LaTeX

Scientific paper

10.1142/S0217751X97002474

We study the dynamics of D-particles (D0-branes) in type I' string theory and of the corresponding states in the dual heterotic description. We account for the presence of the two 8-orientifolds (8 dimensional orientifold planes) and sixteen D8-branes by deriving the appropriate quantum mechanical system. We recover the familiar condition of eight D8-branes for each 8-orientifold. We investigate bound states and compute the phase shifts for the scattering of such states and find that they agree with the expectations from the supergravity action. In the type I' regime we study the motion transverse to the 8-orientifold and find an interesting cancellation effect.

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