English

Tubular D3-branes and their Dualities

High Energy Physics - Theory 2007-05-23 v1

Abstract

A tubular D3-brane with electromagnetic flux is considered. It is verified that the quantized electric and magnetic charges are the F-string and D-string charges of the brane, respectively. The D3-brane with parallel electric and magnetic fields collapses to the bound state of strings. A D3-brane with nonzero Poynting vector can be viewed as expanded FD strings. A fundamental string is viewed as a collapsed D3-brane and mapped to the (n,m) strings via electric-magnetic duality rotations. This mapping is the same as a weak-strong duality transformation and therefore reveals the equivalence of the electric-magnetic and weak-strong dualities.

Keywords

Cite

@article{arxiv.hep-th/0209239,
  title  = {Tubular D3-branes and their Dualities},
  author = {S. Tamaryan and D. K. Park and H. J. W. Muller-Kirsten},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/0209239},
  year   = {2007}
}

Comments

11 pages, LaTex, no figures