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On 1/4 BPS ((F, D1), (NS5, D5)) bound states of type IIB string theory

High Energy Physics - Theory 2017-09-13 v2

Abstract

We construct two new SL(2,Z) invariant vacua of type IIB string theory which are bound states of (p,q)(p,q) strings with (m,n)(m,n) 5-branes, written as ((F, D1), (NS5, D5)) and preserve 1/4 of the full space-time supersymmetries. For the first case, the strings live inside the 5-brane world-volume and in the second case the strings are perpendicular to the 5-brane world-volume. In the first case, naively one would expect an attractive interaction between the strings and the 5-branes due to attractive force between F and D5 and also between D1 and NS5. We find that 1/4 BPS bound state exists only when the vacuum moduli satisfy certain condition which is found to be consistent with the no-force condition between the branes. No such complication arises for the second case. The tension formulae and the various other descendant states which can be obtained by the application of T-duality for both these bound states are discussed.

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Cite

@article{arxiv.1704.01463,
  title  = {On 1/4 BPS ((F, D1), (NS5, D5)) bound states of type IIB string theory},
  author = {Qiang Jia and J. X. Lu and Shibaji Roy},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1704.01463},
  year   = {2017}
}

Comments

22 pages, 1 table, minor changes and one reference added, the version to appear in JHEP