Branes from Unstable Systems of Branes
Abstract
We discuss various aspects of the description of branes as topological solitons in unstable brane systems of higher dimensions. We first describe a classification of all the possible realisations of branes of M and type II theories as topological solitons of a brane-antibrane system. We then present a description of type IIB NS-NS p-branes in terms of topological solitons in systems of spacetime-filling NS9, anti-NS9 pairs and discuss the implications of these constructions in the description of BPS and non-BPS states in the strongly coupled Heterotic SO(32) theory. We finally present briefly the construction of a conjectured spacetime-filling non-BPS M10-brane, starting point for a brane descent construction of the branes of M-theory.
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@article{arxiv.hep-th/0011285,
title = {Branes from Unstable Systems of Branes},
author = {Laurent Houart and Yolanda Lozano},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/0011285},
year = {2015}
}
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11 pages, Proceedings of the RTN-meeting, "The Quantum Structure of Spacetime and the Geometric Nature of Fundamental Interactions, Berlin, October 2000