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Wrapped Magnetized Branes: Two Alternative Descriptions?
P. Di Vecchia, A. Liccardo, R. Marotta +2
We discuss two inequivalent ways for describing magnetized D-branes wrapped N times on a torus T^2. The first one is based on a non-abelian gauge bundle U(N), while the second one…
Instanton effects in N=1 brane models and the Kahler metric of twisted matter
Marco Billo, Paolo Di Vecchia, Marialuisa Frau +3
We consider locally consistent systems of magnetized D9 branes on an orbifolded six-torus which support N=1 gauge theories. In such realizations, the matter multiplets arise from "…
The beginning of string theory: a historical sketch
Paolo Di Vecchia, Adam Schwimmer
In this note we follow the historical development of the ideas that led to the formulation of String Theory. We start from the inspired guess of Veneziano and its extension to the…
Instantons in N=2 magnetized D-brane worlds
Marco Billo, Marialuisa Frau, Igor Pesando +3
In a toroidal orbifold of type IIB string theory we study instanton effects in N=2 super Yang-Mills theories engineered with systems of wrapped magnetized D9 branes and Euclidean D…
The birth of string theory
Paolo Di Vecchia
In this contribution we go through the developments that in the years 1968 to 1974 led from the Veneziano model to the bosonic string.