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World-volume Solitons of the D3-brane in the Background of (p,q) Five-branes

arXiv:hep-th/9912177 · doi:10.1142/S0217751X00001841

Abstract

We analyze the world-volume solitons of a D3-brane probe in the background of parallel (p,q) five-branes. The D3-brane is embedded along the directions transverse to the five-branes of the background. By using the S-duality invariance of the D3-brane, we find a first-order differential equation whose solutions saturate an energy bound. The SO(3) invariant solutions of this equation are found analytically. They represent world-volume solitons which can be interpreted as formed by parallel (-q,p) strings emanating from the D3-brane world-volume. It is shown that these configurations are 1/4 supersymmetric and provide a world-volume realization of the Hanany-Witten effect.

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