nLab D2-D6 brane bound state

Idea

brane intersection of D2-branes with D6-branes; special case of Dp-D(p+4)-brane bound state

Related concepts

References

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

As black branes

As black branes (D2-D6-NS5 brane bound state):

General

• Konstadinos Sfetsos, Kostas Skenderis, Section 2.2 of: Microscopic derivation of the Bekenstein-Hawking entropy formula for non-extremal black holes, Nucl. Phys. B517 (1998) 179-204 (arXiv:hep-th/9711138)

• Oskar Pelc, Ruud Siebelink, The D2-D6 System and a Fibered AdS Geometry, Nucl. Phys. B 558 (1999) 127-158 [arXiv:hep-th/9902045, doi:10.1016/S0550-3213(99)00332-6]

• Federico Faedo, Yolanda Lozano, Nicolo Petri, Searching for surface defect CFTs within $AdS_3$, JHEP 11 (2020) 052 (arXiv:2007.16167)

As defects in D4/D8 realizing $AdS_3/CFT_2$

black$\;$D4-D8-brane bound states in massive type IIA string theory, with defect D2-D6-brane bound states inside them realizing AdS3-CFT2 “inside” AdS7-CFT6:

• Giuseppe Dibitetto, Nicolò Petri, Surface defects in the D4 − D8 brane system, JHEP 01 (2019) 193 (arxiv:1807.07768)

• Giuseppe Dibitetto, Nicolò Petri, $AdS_3$ vacua and surface defects in massive IIA (arxiv:1904.02455)

As black holes

Discussion of black hole entropy of D2-D6 brane bound states as black holes in string theory:

• Juan Maldacena, Andrew Strominger, Statistical Entropy of Four-Dimensional Extremal Black Holes, Phys. Rev. Lett. 77:428-429, 1996 (arXiv:hep-th/9603060)

• Konstadinos Sfetsos, Kostas Skenderis, Microscopic derivation of the Bekenstein-Hawking entropy formula for non-extremal black holes, Nucl. Phys. B517 (1998) 179-204 (arXiv:hep-th/9711138)