D-branes in the background of NS fivebranes

Shmuel Elitzur*, Amit Giveon, Eliezer Rabinovici, Gor Sarkissian, David Kutasov

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Abstract

We study the dynamics of D-branes in the near-horizon geometry of NS fivebranes. This leads to a holographically dual description of the physics of D-branes ending on and/or intersecting NS5-branes. We use it to verify some properties of such D-branes which were deduced indirectly in the past, and discuss some instabilities of non-supersymmetric brane configurations. Our construction also describes vacua of Little String Theory which are dual to open plus closed string theory in asymptotically linear dilaton spacetimes.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)1-39
Number of pages39
JournalJournal of High Energy Physics
Volume4
Issue number8 PART B
DOIs
StatePublished - 2000

Keywords

  • AdS-CFT Correspondance
  • Brane Dynamics in Gauge Theories
  • Conformal Field Models in String Theory
  • D-branes

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