Nonabelian Phenomena on D-branes
High Energy Physics - Theory
2009-11-10 v2
Abstract
A remarkable feature of D-branes is the appearance of a nonabelian gauge theory in the description of several (nearly) coincident branes. This nonabelian structure plays an important role in realizing various geometric effects with D-branes. In particular, the branes' transverse displacements are described by matrix-valued scalar fields and so noncommutative geometry naturally appears in this framework. I review the action governing this nonabelian theory, as well as various related physical phenomena such as the dielectric effect, giant gravitons and fuzzy funnels.
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@article{arxiv.hep-th/0303072,
title = {Nonabelian Phenomena on D-branes},
author = {Robert C. Myers},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/0303072},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
Lecture at Leuven workshop on ``The quantum structure of spacetime and the geometrical nature of fundamental interactions'' (September 13-19, 2002); ref.'s added