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IIB or not IIB

Author(s) -

Mark Srednicki

Publication year - 1998

Publication title -

journal of high energy physics

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.998

H-Index - 261

eISSN - 1126-6708

pISSN - 1029-8479

DOI - 10.1088/1126-6708/1998/08/005

Subject(s) - superstring theory , tachyon , physics , infinity , mathematical physics , gauge theory , theoretical physics , annihilation , brane cosmology , gauge group , quantum electrodynamics , particle physics , supersymmetry , mathematics , mathematical analysis

We consider Type IIB superstring theory with the addition of n 9-branes and nanti-9-branes (and no orientifolds). The result is a ten-dimensional chiraltheory of open and closed oriented strings with gauge group U(n) \times U(n).There is, however, a tachyonic instability which can be understood as theconsequence of brane-antibrane annihilation. We therefore expect to recover theusual IIB theory as the tachyon rolls to infinity.Comment: 5 pages, no figures, RevTeX 3.0; published version, references adde

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