Brane Creation in M(atrix) Theory
摘要
We discuss, in the context of M(atrix) theory, the creation of a membrane suspendend between two longitudinal five-branes when they cross each other. It is shown that the membrane creation is closely related to the degrees of freedom in the off-diagonal blocks which are related via dualities to the chiral fermionic zero mode on a 0-8 string. In the dual system of a D0-brane and a D8-brane in type \IIA theory the half-integral charges associated with the ``half''-strings are found to be connected to the well-known fermion-number fractionalization in the presence of a fermionic zero mode. At sufficiently short distances, the effective potential between the two five-branes is dominated by the zero mode contribution to the vacuum energy.
引用
@article{arxiv.hep-th/9708137,
title = {Brane Creation in M(atrix) Theory},
author = {Pei-Ming Ho and Yong-Shi Wu},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/9708137},
year = {2009}
}
备注
14 pages, Latex. A new paragraph on p.10 and acknowledgement added. v3: The version for publication: minor revisions and typos corrected