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Brane Death via Born-Infeld String
Konstantin G. Savvidy
I revisit the solution of Born-Infeld theory which corresponds to a 3-brane and anti-brane joined by a (fundamental) string. The global instability of this configuration makes poss…
hep-th1998★ 122 cited
Baryons and String Creation from the Fivebrane Worldvolume Action
Curtis G. Callan, Alberto Guijosa, Konstantin G. Savvidy
We construct BPS-exact solutions of the worldvolume Born-Infeld plus WZW action of a D5-brane in the background of N D3-branes. The non-trivial background metric and RR five-form f…