Supersymmetric fluxbrane intersections and closed string tachyons

Details Supersymmetric fluxbrane intersections and closed string tachyons Supersymmetric fluxbrane intersections and closed string tachyons

2001-10-11

arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0110107v3

JHEP 0111:065,2001

Physics

High Energy Physics

High Energy Physics - Theory

26 pages, harvmac. v3: reference added, minor changes in appendix

Scientific paper

10.1088/1126-6708/2001/11/065

We consider NS-NS superstring model with several ``magnetic'' parameters $b_s$ (s=1, ...,N) associated with twists mixing a compact $S^1$ direction with angles in $N$ spatial 2-planes of flat 10-dimensional space. It generalizes the Kaluza-Klein Melvin model which has single parameter $b$. The corresponding U-dual background is a R-R type IIA solution describing an orthogonal intersection of $N$ flux 7-branes. Like the Melvin model, the NS-NS string model with $N$ continuous parameters is explicitly solvable; we present its perturbative spectrum and torus partition function explicitly for the N=2 case. For generic $b_s$ (above some critical values) there are tachyons in the $S^1$ winding sector. A remarkable feature of this model is that while in the Melvin N=1 case all supersymmetry is broken, a fraction of it may be preserved for $N >1$ by making a special choice of the parameters $b_s$. Such solvable NS-NS models may be viewed as continuous-parameter analogs of non-compact orbifold models. They and their U-dual R-R fluxbrane counterparts may have some ``phenomenological'' applications. In particular, in N=3 case one finds a special 1/4 supersymmetric R-R 3-brane background. Putting Dp-branes in flat twisted NS-NS backgrounds leads to world-volume gauge theories with reduced amount of supersymmetry. We also discuss possible ways of evolution of unstable backgrounds towards stable ones.

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