Open AccessChan-Paton factors and higgsing from vacuum string field theory
Author(s) -
Carlo Maccaferri
Publication year - 2005
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 - 10.1088/1126-6708/2005/09/022
Subject(s) - twist , string (physics) , physics , anomaly (physics) , brane cosmology , theoretical physics , field (mathematics) , midpoint , geometry , mathematics , quantum mechanics , pure mathematics
We give a description of open strings stretched between N parallel D-branesin VSFT. We show how higgsing is generated as the branes are displaced: theshift in the mass formula for on-shell states stretched between differentbranes is due to a twist anomaly, a contribution localized at the midpoint.Comment: 20 pages, JHEP clas
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