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Tensionless Branes and Discrete Gauge Symmetry

High Energy Physics - Theory 2009-10-31 v2

Abstract

We show that the tensionless branes found recently on non-BPS D-branes using non-commutative field theory are in fact gauge equivalent to the vacuum under a discrete gauge symmetry. We also give a simple construction of the D(2p)-branes in IIA theory starting from a single non-BPS D9-brane.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/0008064,
  title  = {Tensionless Branes and Discrete Gauge Symmetry},
  author = {Jeffrey A. Harvey and Per Kraus and Finn Larsen},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/0008064},
  year   = {2009}
}

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6 pages. v2: very minor changes, version to appear in Phys. Rev. D