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A comment on $p$-branes of ($p+3$)$\rm{d}$ string theory

High Energy Physics - Theory 2015-05-13 v2

Abstract

We argue that in (p+3p+3)d string theory the existence of NS-NS type pp-brane with negative tension is essential to obtain background geometry R2R_2 or R2/ZnR_2 / Z_n on the transverse dimensions, and the usual codimension-2 brane solutions with these background geometries already contain the negative tension NS-brane implicity in their ansatz. Such an argument leads us, in the context of brane world scenarios, to a conjecture that true background pp-brane immanent in our spacetime may perhaps be NS-NS type brane, rather than D-brane.

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@article{arxiv.0812.0227,
  title  = {A comment on $p$-branes of ($p+3$)$\rm{d}$ string theory},
  author = {Eun Kyung Park and Pyung Seong Kwon},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0812.0227},
  year   = {2015}
}

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16 pages. Version to appear in JHEP

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