TH Duality Workshop

Open strings in the background of NS 5-branes

Name: Open strings in the background of NS 5-branes
Start: 2000-06-06T14:00:00+02:00
End: 2000-06-06T14:15:00+02:00
Location: CERN

by Amit GIVEON (CERN-TH)

Tuesday 6 Jun 2000, 14:00 → 14:15 Europe/Zurich

TH Auditorium (CERN)

TH Auditorium

CERN

Description

We study the dynamics of D-branes in the near-horizon geometry of NS fivebranes. This leads to a holographically dual description of the physics of D-branes ending on and/or intersecting NS5-branes. We use it to verify some properties of such D-branes, which were deduced indirectly in the past, and discuss some instabilities of non-supersymmetric brane configurations. Our construction also describes vacua of Little String Theory, which are dual to open plus closed string theory in asymptotically linear dilaton space-times.