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Branes from Unstable Systems of Branes
Author(s) -
Houart Laurent,
Lozano Yolanda
Publication year - 2001
Publication title -
fortschritte der physik
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.469
H-Index - 71
eISSN - 1521-3978
pISSN - 0015-8208
DOI - 10.1002/1521-3978(200105)49:4/6<543::aid-prop543>3.0.co;2-m
Subject(s) - brane cosmology , physics , spacetime , brane , heterotic string theory , theoretical physics , descent (aeronautics) , topology (electrical circuits) , space (punctuation) , soliton , quantum mechanics , nonlinear system , mathematics , linguistics , philosophy , combinatorics , meteorology
We discuss various aspects of the description of branes as topological solitons in unstable brane systems of higher dimensions. We first describe a classification of all the possible realisations of branes of M and type II theories as topological solitons of a brane‐antibrane system. We then present a description of type IIB NS‐NS p ‐branes in terms of topological solitons in systems of spacetime‐filling NS9, anti‐NS9 pairs and discuss the implications of these constructions in the description of BPS and non‐BPS states in the strongly coupled Heterotic SO (32) theory. We finally present briefly the construction of a conjectured spacetime‐filling non‐BPS M10‐brane, starting point for a brane descent construction of the branes of M‐theory.