Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Theory
Scientific paper
1998-01-30
Nucl.Phys. B525 (1998) 117-145
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Theory
33 pages, LaTeX, eps figures
Scientific paper
10.1016/S0550-3213(98)00290-9
It is confirmed that geodesic string junctions are necessary to describe the gauge vectors of symmetry groups that arise in the context of IIB superstrings compactified in the presence of nonlocal 7-branes. By examining the moduli space of 7-brane backgrounds for which the dilaton and axion fields are constant, we are able to describe explicitly and geometrically how open string geodesics can fail to be smooth, and how geodesic string junctions then become the relevant BPS representatives of the gauge bosons. The mechanisms that guarantee the existence and uniqueness of the BPS representative of any gauge vector are also shown to generalize to the case where the dilaton and axion fields are not constant.
Gaberdiel Matthias R.
Hauer Tamas
Zwiebach Barton
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