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D-Branes in the Background of NS Fivebranes

High Energy Physics - Theory 2009-10-31 v1

Abstract

We study the dynamics of DD-branes in the near-horizon geometry of NSNS fivebranes. This leads to a holographically dual description of the physics of DD-branes ending on and/or intersecting NS5NS5-branes. We use it to verify some properties of such DD-branes which were deduced indirectly in the past, and discuss some instabilities of non-supersymmetric brane configurations. Our construction also describes vacua of Little String Theory which are dual to open plus closed string theory in asymptotically linear dilaton spacetimes.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/0005052,
  title  = {D-Branes in the Background of NS Fivebranes},
  author = {Shmuel Elitzur and Amit Giveon and David Kutasov and Eliezer Rabinovici and Gor Sarkissian},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/0005052},
  year   = {2009}
}

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44 pages, 16 figures, harvmac