Geometric Realizations of BPS States in N=2 Theories
High Energy Physics - Theory
2009-10-31 v2
Abstract
We study the BPS spectrum of the theory on a D3-brane probe in F theory. The BPS states are realized by multi-string configurations in spacetime. Only certain configurations obeying a selection rule give rise to BPS states in the four-dimensional probe theory. Using these string configurations, we determine the spectrum of N=2 SU(2) Yang-Mills. We also explore the relation between multi-string configurations, M theory membranes and self-dual strings.
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@article{arxiv.hep-th/9803142,
title = {Geometric Realizations of BPS States in N=2 Theories},
author = {Andrei Mikhailov and Nikita Nekrasov and Savdeep Sethi},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/9803142},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
23 pages, harvmac; an acknowledgement added