English

Multiple Intersections of D-branes and M-branes

High Energy Physics - Theory 2009-10-30 v3

Abstract

We give a classification of all multiple intersections of D-branes in ten dimensions and M-branes in eleven dimensions that corresponds to threshold BPS bound states. The residual supersymmetry of these composite branes is determined. By dimensional reduction composite p-branes in lower dimensions can be constructed. We emphasize in dimensions D greater or equal than two, those solutions which involve a single scalar and depend on a single harmonic function. For these extremal branes we obtain the strength of the coupling between the scalar and the gauge field. In particular we give a D-brane and M-brane interpretation of extreme p-branes in two, three and four dimensions.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/9612095,
  title  = {Multiple Intersections of D-branes and M-branes},
  author = {E. Bergshoeff and M. de Roo and E. Eyras and B. Janssen and J. P. van der Schaar},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/9612095},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

28 pages, LaTeX, 4 figures, corrections in table 1 and figure 2

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