Publication : t01/063

Closed Strings from SO(8) Yang-Mills Instantons

Minasian R. (Centre de Physique Théorique (CPhT), CNRS, Ecole Polytechnique, F-91128 Palaiseau, France)
Shatashvili S.L. (Department of Physics, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06520-8120, USA)
Vanhove P. (CEA, DSM, SPhT (Service de Physique Théorique), F-91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, FRANCE)
Abstract:
When eight-dimensional instantons, satisfying F wedge F = pm star_8 (Fwedge F), shrink to zero size, we find stringy objects in higher order ten-dimensional Yang-Mills (viewed as a low-energy limit of open string theory). The associated F^4 action is a combination of two independent parts having a single-trace and a double-trace structure. As a result we get a D-string from the single-trace term and a fundamental string from the double-trace. The latter has (8,0) supersymmetry on the worldsheet and couplings to the background gauge fields of a heterotic string. A correlation between the conformal factor of the instanton and the tachyon field is conjectured.
Année de publication : 2001
Revue : Nucl. Phys. B 613 87-104 (2001)
DOI : 10.1016/S0550-3213(01)00369-8
Preprint : arXiv:hep-th/0106096
Numéro Exterieur : CPHT-S028.0601 ; YCTP-SS6-01
Langue : Anglais

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