Branes, Orientifolds and the Creation of Elementary Strings

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1997-05-18

arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9705130v3

Nucl.Phys. B509 (1998) 194-215

Physics

High Energy Physics

High Energy Physics - Theory

24 pages, LaTeX, 4 postscript-figures; substantial changes to sections 2 and 3

Scientific paper

10.1016/S0550-3213(97)00632-9

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 some implications for the type IA-heterotic duality and the heterotic matrix theory are discussed.

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