Gauge Symmetry Breaking and Generalized Monopole in Non-BPS D-Brane Action
Abstract
Based on the DBI action for the four coincident non-BPS D9-branes in the type IIA string theory we demonstrate that the gauge symmetry breaking through the tachyon condensation into the generalized monopole of codimension five produces a pair of two coincident BPS D4-branes. The nontrivial gauge field configuration is studied and shown to yield the non-zero generalized magnetic charge. We discuss how this explicit demonstration is related with the higher K-theory group.
- Publication:
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arXiv e-prints
- Pub Date:
- October 2000
- DOI:
- 10.48550/arXiv.hep-th/0010007
- arXiv:
- arXiv:hep-th/0010007
- Bibcode:
- 2000hep.th...10007R
- Keywords:
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- High Energy Physics - Theory
- E-Print:
- 11 pages, LaTeX2e, no figures