The two faces of T-branes

Autor: Iosif Bena, Johan Blåbäck, Raffaele Savelli, Gianluca Zoccarato
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2019
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Zdroj: Journal of High Energy Physics, Vol 2019, Iss 10, Pp 1-30 (2019)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 1029-8479
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP10(2019)150
Popis: Abstract We establish a brane-brane duality connecting T-branes to collections of ordinary D-branes. T-branes are intrinsically non-Abelian brane configurations with worldvolume flux, whereas their duals consist of Abelian brane systems that encode the T-brane data in their curvature. We argue that the new Abelian picture provides a reliable description of T-branes when their non-Abelian fields have large expectation values in string units. To confirm this duality, we match the energy density and all the electromagnetic couplings on both sides. A key step in this derivation is a non-trivial factorization of the symmetrized-trace non-Abelian Dirac-Born-Infeld action when evaluated on solutions of the α′ -corrected Hitchin system.
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