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D-Branes in Field Theory

High Energy Physics - Theory 2009-11-11 v2

Abstract

Certain gauge theories in four dimensions are known to admit semi-classical D-brane solitons. These are domain walls on which vortex flux tubes may end. The purpose of this paper is to develop an open-string description of these D-branes. The dynamics of the domain walls is shown to be governed by a Chern-Simons-Higgs theory which, at the quantum level, captures the classical "closed string" scattering of domain wall solitons.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/0512192,
  title  = {D-Branes in Field Theory},
  author = {David Tong},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/0512192},
  year   = {2009}
}

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23 Pages, 3 figures. v2: reference added

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