D-branes in the background of ns fivebranes

Shmuel Elitzur*, Amit Giveon, David Kutasov, Eliezer Rabinovici, G. O.R. Sarkissisan

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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)880-890
Number of pages11
JournalInternational Journal of Modern Physics A
Volume16
Issue number5
DOIs
StatePublished - 20 Feb 2001

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