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Gauge Fields and D-branes

High Energy Physics - Theory 2015-06-26 v1

Abstract

We prove that self-dual gauge fields in type I superstring theory are equivalent to configurations of Dirichlet 5-branes, by showing that the world-sheet theory of a Dirichlet 1-brane moving in a background of 5-branes includes an ``ADHM sigma model.'' This provides an explicit construction of the equivalent self-dual gauge field. We also discuss type II.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/9604198,
  title  = {Gauge Fields and D-branes},
  author = {Michael R. Douglas},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/9604198},
  year   = {2015}
}

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harvmac, 9pp