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Defect (p,q) Five-branes

High Energy Physics - Theory 2015-02-10 v4

Abstract

We study a local description of composite five-branes of codimension two. The formulation is constructed by virtue of SL(2,Z)×SL(2,Z)SL(2,{\mathbb Z}) \times SL(2,{\mathbb Z)} monodromy associated with two-torus. Applying conjugate monodromy transformations to the complex structures of the two-torus, we obtain a field configuration of a defect (p,q)(p,q) five-brane. This is a composite state of pp defect NS5-branes and qq exotic 5225^2_2-branes. We also obtain a new example of hyper-K\"{a}hler geometry. This is an ALG space, a generalization of an ALF space which asymptotically has a tri-holomorphic two-torus action. This geometry appears in the conjugate configuration of a single defect KK5-brane.

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@article{arxiv.1410.8403,
  title  = {Defect (p,q) Five-branes},
  author = {Tetsuji Kimura},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1410.8403},
  year   = {2015}
}

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22 pages, version published in Nuclear Physics B

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