nLab NS-brane

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Idea

In string theory the NS-branes are

These are also called the F1-brane and the F5-brane, respectively, for fundamental brane .

To be distinguished from the D-branes in type II string theory and from the M-branes in 11-dimensional supergravity.

Properties

Charges and background fields

The fundamental string carries electric charge under the background gauge field called the Kalb-Ramond field/B-field.

The NS5-brane carries magnetic charge under this field.

Notice how this relates the dimensions. The B-field is a circle 2-bundle with connection hence has higher parallel transport over 2-dimensional surfaces: the (1+1)(1+1)-dimensional worldsheet of the string. Its EM dual in the ambient 10-dimensional supergravity spacetime is a circle 6-bundle with connection with higher parallel transport over the 5+15+1-dimensional worldvolume of the NS5-brane.

Table of branes appearing in supergravity/string theory (for classification see at brane scan).

branein supergravitycharged under gauge fieldhas worldvolume theory
black branesupergravityhigher gauge fieldSCFT
D-branetype IIRR-fieldsuper Yang-Mills theory
(D=2n)(D = 2n)type IIA\,\,
D(-2)-brane\,\,
D0-brane\,\,BFSS matrix model
D2-brane\,\,\,
D4-brane\,\,D=5 super Yang-Mills theory with Khovanov homology observables
D6-brane\,\,D=7 super Yang-Mills theory
D8-brane\,\,
(D=2n+1)(D = 2n+1)type IIB\,\,
D(-1)-brane\,\,\,
D1-brane\,\,2d CFT with BH entropy
D3-brane\,\,N=4 D=4 super Yang-Mills theory
D5-brane\,\,\,
D7-brane\,\,\,
D9-brane\,\,\,
(p,q)-string\,\,\,
(D25-brane)(bosonic string theory)
NS-branetype I, II, heteroticcircle n-connection\,
string\,B2-field2d SCFT
NS5-brane\,B6-fieldlittle string theory
D-brane for topological string\,
A-brane\,
B-brane\,
M-brane11D SuGra/M-theorycircle n-connection\,
M2-brane\,C3-fieldABJM theory, BLG model
M5-brane\,C6-field6d (2,0)-superconformal QFT
M9-brane/O9-planeheterotic string theory
M-wave
topological M2-branetopological M-theoryC3-field on G2-manifold
topological M5-brane\,C6-field on G2-manifold
S-brane
SM2-brane,
membrane instanton
M5-brane instanton
D3-brane instanton
solitons on M5-brane6d (2,0)-superconformal QFT
self-dual stringself-dual B-field
3-brane in 6d

References

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