Membranes from Five-Branes and Fundamental Strings from Dp Branes

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1999-01-29

arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9901159v2

Nucl.Phys. B550 (1999) 214-224

Physics

High Energy Physics

High Energy Physics - Theory

LaTeX, 12 pages (typos corrected and minor changes in the text)

Scientific paper

10.1016/S0550-3213(99)00191-1

We argue that M2 brane is realized as a topological soliton on a coincident pair of M5 and anti-M5 branes, as the two five-branes annihilate each other. Topology and quantum numbers of this world-volume soliton are discussed in some detail, and its formation is explained qualitatively. It follows from a compactification that a D4-anti-D4 pair annihilate and produce type II fundamental strings. The phenomenon is best described as the confinement of a world-volume U(1) gauge field on D4-anti-D4, where the confined electric flux string is identified as the fundamental string. This generalizes to other D$p$-anti-D$p$ systems, and solves a puzzle recently pointed out by Witten.

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