nLab D0-D4-brane bound state

Idea

bound states of D0-branes with D4-branes. A special case of the general phenomenon of Dp-D(p+4)-brane bound states.

Related concepts

brane intersections/bound states/wrapped branes/polarized branes

• D-branes and anti D-branes form bound states by tachyon condensation, thought to imply the classification of D-brane charge by K-theory

• intersecting D-branes/fuzzy funnels:

  • Dp-D(p+2)-brane bound state and Yang-Mills monopoles

    • D0-D2 brane bound state

    • D1-D3 brane bound state

    • D2-D4 brane bound state

    • D3-D5 brane bound state

    • D4-D6 brane bound state

    • D6-D8-brane bound state

  • Dp-D(p+4)-brane bound state and Yang-Mills instantons

    • D0-D4 brane bound state

    • D1-D5 brane bound state

    • D2-D6 brane bound state

    • D3-D7 brane bound state

    • D4-D8 brane bound state

    • D5-D9 brane bound state

      small instanton

• Dp-D(p+6) brane bound state

  • D0-D6 brane bound state

  • D1-D7 brane bound state

  • D2-D8 brane bound state

• NS5-D4-D2 bound states

• Hanany-Witten effect

S-duality$\,$bound states:

• (p,q)-string

• (p,q)5-branes

• string network

• 5-brane web

intersecting$\,$M-branes:

• M5-MO9 brane bound state

• M2-M5 brane bound state

  • M-string, E-string

• membrane triple junction

References

• Cumrun Vafa, Instantons on D-branes, Nucl. Phys. B463 (1996) 435-442 (arXiv:hep-th/9512078)

with emphasis to the resulting configuration spaces of points, as in

• Cumrun Vafa, Edward Witten, Section 4.1 of: A Strong Coupling Test of S-Duality, Nucl. Phys. B431:3-77, 1994 (arXiv:hep-th/9408074)