Title

The Shapes of Dirichlet Defects

Author(s)/Creator(s)

Mark Bowick, Department of Physics, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY
Antonio De Felice, Syracuse University
Mark Trodden, Syracuse University

Document Type

Article

Date

6-23-2003

Language

English

Disciplines

Physics

Description/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.

Additional Information

24 pages, RevTeX, 21 eps figures More information at http://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0306224

Recommended Citation

Bowick, Mark; Felice, Antonio De; and Trodden, Mark, "The Shapes of Dirichlet Defects" (2003). Physics - All Scholarship. 154.
https://surface.syr.edu/phy/154

Source

Harvested from Arxiv.org