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Zero-Branes on a Compact Orbifold

High Energy Physics - Theory 2009-10-31 v3

Abstract

The non-commutative algebra which defines the theory of zero-branes on T4/Z2T^4/Z_2 allows a unified description of moduli spaces associated with zero-branes, two-branes and four-branes on the orbifold space. Bundles on a dual space T^4/Z2\hat T^4/Z_2 play an important role in this description. We discuss these moduli spaces in the context of dualities of K3 compactifications, and in terms of properties of instantons on T4T^4. Zero-branes on the degenerate limits of the compact orbifold lead to fixed points with six-dimensional scale but not conformal invariance. We identify some of these in terms of the ADS dual of the (0,2)(0,2) theory at large NN, giving evidence for an interesting picture of "where the branes live" in ADS.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/9805191,
  title  = {Zero-Branes on a Compact Orbifold},
  author = {Sanjaye Ramgoolam and Daniel Waldram},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/9805191},
  year   = {2009}
}

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34 pages (harvmac big); version to appear in JHEP