TH Thursday Seminar

D-branes and fluxes as KdV solitons in minimal string theory

Name: D-branes and fluxes as KdV solitons in minimal string theory
Start: 2005-06-09T14:00:00+02:00
End: 2005-06-09T15:00:00+02:00
Location: CERN

by Clifford Johnson (University of Southern California)

Thursday 9 Jun 2005, 14:00 → 15:00 Europe/Zurich

TH Auditorium (CERN)

TH Auditorium

CERN

Description

We show that D-branes and fluxes in minimal type 0A string theory can be identified with a subset of the solitons of the KdV hierarchy which is known to underlie the theory non-perturbatively. The classic Backlund transformations act to change the number of D-branes, or the number of units of flux. This rather beautiful connection reconnects the string theories to the underlying integrable structures in a way which suggests an intriguing and instructive geometrical language. Generalizations are discussed.