The shapes of Dirichlet defects

Mark Bowick, Antonio De Felice, Mark Trodden

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Abstract

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.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages (from-to)1761-1777
Number of pages17
JournalJournal of High Energy Physics
Volume7
Issue number10
DOIs
StatePublished - Oct 1 2003

Keywords

  • Solitons Monopoles and Instantons
  • Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Nuclear and High Energy Physics

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