Published December 2002 | Version v1
Journal article

The 's-rule' exclusion principle and vacuum interpolation in worldvolume dynamics

  • 1. Departament ECM, Facultat de Fisica, Institut de Fisica d'Altes Energies and CER for Astrophysics, Particle Physics and Cosmology, Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona (Spain)
  • 2. Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Cambridge (United Kingdom)

Description

We show how the worldvolume realization of the Hanany-Witten effect for a supersymmetric D5-brane in a D3 background also provides a classical realization of the 's-rule' exclusion principle. Despite the supersymmetry, the force on the D5-brane vanishes only in the D5 'ground state', which is shown to interpolate between 6-dimensional Minkowski space and an OSp(4* vertical bar 4)-invariant AdS2xS4 geometry. The M-theory analogue of these results is briefly discussed. (author)

Availability note (English)

Available online at the Web site for the Journal of High Energy Physics (ISSN 1029-8479) http://www.iop.org/

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Publishing Information

Journal Title
Journal of High Energy Physics
Journal Volume
12
Journal Issue
2002
Journal Page Range
p. vp
ISSN
1126-6708