TY - JOUR
T1 - The shapes of Dirichlet defects
AU - Bowick, Mark
AU - De Felice, Antonio
AU - Trodden, Mark
N1 - Copyright:
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PY - 2003/10/1
Y1 - 2003/10/1
N2 - If the vacuum manifold of a field theory has the appropriate topological structure, the theory admits topological structures analogous to the D-branes of string theory, in which defects of one dimension terminate on other defects of higher dimension. The shapes of such defects are analyzed numerically, with special attention paid to the intersection regions. Walls (co-dimension 1 branes) terminating on other walls, global strings (co-dimension 2 branes) and local strings (including gauge fields) terminating on walls are all considered. Connections to supersymmetric field theories, string theory and condensed matter systems are pointed out.
AB - If the vacuum manifold of a field theory has the appropriate topological structure, the theory admits topological structures analogous to the D-branes of string theory, in which defects of one dimension terminate on other defects of higher dimension. The shapes of such defects are analyzed numerically, with special attention paid to the intersection regions. Walls (co-dimension 1 branes) terminating on other walls, global strings (co-dimension 2 branes) and local strings (including gauge fields) terminating on walls are all considered. Connections to supersymmetric field theories, string theory and condensed matter systems are pointed out.
KW - Solitons Monopoles and Instantons
KW - Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking
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U2 - 10.1088/1126-6708/2003/10/067
DO - 10.1088/1126-6708/2003/10/067
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:23044497745
VL - 7
SP - 1761
EP - 1777
JO - Journal of High Energy Physics
JF - Journal of High Energy Physics
SN - 1126-6708
IS - 10
ER -