Chan-Paton factors and Higgsing from Vacuum String Field Theory
High Energy Physics - Theory
2009-11-11 v1
Abstract
We give a description of open strings stretched between N parallel D-branes in VSFT. We show how higgsing is generated as the branes are displaced: the shift in the mass formula for on-shell states stretched between different branes is due to a twist anomaly, a contribution localized at the midpoint.
Cite
@article{arxiv.hep-th/0506213,
title = {Chan-Paton factors and Higgsing from Vacuum String Field Theory},
author = {Carlo Maccaferri},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/0506213},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
20 pages, JHEP class