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Condensation of p-branes and generalized Higgs/confinement duality

High Energy Physics - Theory 2011-04-15 v1

Abstract

We review our recent work on the low-energy actions and the realizations of strong-weak coupling dualities in non-perturbative phases of compact antisymmetric tensor field theories due to p-brane condensation. As examples we derive and discuss the confining string and confining membrane actions obtained from compact vector and tensor theories in 4D. We also mention the relevance of our results for the description of the Hagedorn phase transition of finite temperature strings.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/9608171,
  title  = {Condensation of p-branes and generalized Higgs/confinement duality},
  author = {Fernando Quevedo and Carlo Trugenberger},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/9608171},
  year   = {2011}
}

Comments

10 pages, latex (To appear in the proceedings of the 1996 summer Telluride workshop)