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Stability and BPS branes

High Energy Physics - Theory 2011-06-28 v4 Algebraic Geometry

Abstract

We define the concept of Pi-stability, a generalization of mu-stability of vector bundles, and argue that it characterizes N=1 supersymmetric brane configurations and BPS states in very general string theory compactifications with N=2 supersymmetry in four dimensions.

Cite

@article{arxiv.hep-th/0002037,
  title  = {Stability and BPS branes},
  author = {Michael R. Douglas and Bartomeu Fiol and Christian Römelsberger},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/0002037},
  year   = {2011}
}

Comments

harvmac, 18 pp