String networks and supersheets
High Energy Physics - Theory
2007-05-23 v2
Abstract
As was shown by Aharony, Hanany and Kol and independently by Sen, type IIB string theory admits configurations where strings of different charges (p_i, q_i) form so-called string networks. We argue that these networks blow up into "supersheets": supersymmetric spinning cylindrical D3-branes carrying electric and magnetic fluxes. These supersheets are three-dimensional generalizations of the supertubes that were constructed by Mateos and Townsend. We calculate the mass of both systems for arbitrary values of the parameters and find exact agreement.
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@article{arxiv.hep-th/0301028,
title = {String networks and supersheets},
author = {E. Verlinde and M. Vonk},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/0301028},
year = {2007}
}
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