ADHM is Tachyon Condensation
High Energy Physics - Theory
2009-11-11 v2
Abstract
We completely realize the ADHM construction of instantons in D-brane language of tachyon condensations. Every step of the construction is given a physical interpretation in string theory, in a boundary state formalism valid all order in \alpha'. Accordingly, equivalence between Yang-Mills configurations on D4-branes and D0-branes inside the D4-branes is proven, which shows that small instanton configurations of the Yang-Mills fields are protected against stringy \alpha' corrections. We provide also D-brane realizations of the inverse ADHM construction, the completeness, and the noncommutative ADHM construction.
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@article{arxiv.hep-th/0511297,
title = {ADHM is Tachyon Condensation},
author = {Koji Hashimoto and Seiji Terashima},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/0511297},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
33 pages, 3 eps figures, JHEP style, comments added, references added