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D-Brane Dynamics and NS5 Rings
We consider the classical motion of a probe D-brane moving in the background
geometry of a ring of NS5 branes, assuming that the latter are non-dynamical.
We analyse the solutions to the Dirac-Born-Infield (DBI) action governing the
approximate dynamics of the system. In the near horizon (throat) approximation
we find several exact solutions for the probe brane motion. These are compared
to numerical solutions obtained in more general cases. One solution of
particular interest is when the probe undergoes oscillatory motion through the
centre of the ring (and perpendicular to it). By taking the ring radius
sufficiently large, this solution should remain stable to any stringy
corrections coming from open-strings stretching between the probe and the
NS5-branes along the ring.Comment: 17 pages, Latex, 8 figures; References adde
Dynamics of D1-brane in I-brane Background
This paper is devoted to the study of the effective field theory description
of the probe D1-brane in the background of the system of two stacks of
fivebranes in type IIB theory that intersect on . We study the
properties of the Dirac-Born-Infeld action for D1-brane moving in this
background. We will argue that this action is invariant under an additional
symmetry in the near horizon limit and that this new symmetry is closely
related to the enhanced symmetry of the I-brane background considered recently
in [hep-th/0508025]. We also solve explicitly the equation of motion of
D1-brane in the near horizon limit.Comment: 21 pages, references adde
Non-BPS D-brane Near NS5-branes
We use tachyon field theory effective action to study the dynamics of a
non-BPS Dp-brane propagating in the vicinity of k NS5-branes. For the time
dependent tachyon condensation we will concentrate on the case of the large
tachyon and the case when a non-BPS D-brane is close to NS5-branes. For spatial
dependent tachyon condensation we will argue that the problem reduces to the
study of the motion of an array of D(p-1)-branes and D(p-1)-antibranes in the
vicinity of k NS5-branes.Comment: 21 page
Comments on D-brane Dynamics Near NS5-Branes
We study the properties of a D-brane in the presence of NS5 branes. The
Dirac-Born-Infeld action describing the dynamics of this D-brane is very
similar to that of a non-BPS D-brane in ten dimensions. As the D-brane
approaches the fivebranes, its equation of state approaches that of a
pressureless fluid. In non-BPS D-brane case this is considered as an evidence
for the decay of the D-brane into ``tachyon matter''. We show that in our case
similar behavior is the consequence of the motion of the D-brane. In particular
in the rest frame of the moving D-brane the equation of state is that of a
usual D-brane, for which the pressure is equal to the energy density. We also
compute the total cross-section for the decay of the D-brane into closed string
modes and show that the emitted energy has a power like divergence for ,
and branes, while converges for higher dimensional D-branes. We also
speculate on the possibility that the infalling D-brane describes a decaying
defect in six dimensional Little String Theory.Comment: 18 pages, latex, references added, minor change
Exactly Soluble Dynamics of (p,q) String Near Macroscopic Fundamental Strings
We study dynamics of Type IIB bound-state of a Dirichlet string and n
fundamental strings in the background of N fundamental strings. Because of
supergravity potential, the bound-state string is pulled to the background
fundamental strings, whose motion is described by open string rolling radion
field. The string coupling can be made controllably weak and, in the limit , the bound-state energy involved is small
compared to the string scale. We thus propose rolling dynamics of open string
radion in this system as an exactly solvable analog for rolling dynamics of
open string tachyon in decaying D-brane. The dynamics bears a novel feature
that the worldsheet electric field increases monotonically to the critical
value as the bound-state string falls into the background string. Close to the
background string, D string constituent inside the bound-state string decouples
from fundamental string constituents.Comment: 27p, 2 figure
D-brane dynamics near compactified NS5-branes
We examine the dynamics of a -brane in the background of coincident,
parallel 5-branes which have had one of their common transverse directions
compactified. We find that for small energy, bound orbits can exist at
sufficiently large distances where there will be no stringy effects. The orbits
are dependent upon the energy density, angular momentum and electric field. The
analysis breaks down at radial distances comparable with the compactification
radius and we must resort to using a modified form of the harmonic function in
this region.Comment: Latex, 20 pages, 6 figs, references adde
Non Abelian Geometrical Tachyon
We investigate the dynamics of a pair of coincident D5 branes in the
background of NS5 branes. It has been proposed by Kutasov that the system
with a single probing D-brane moving radially in this background is dual to the
tachyonic DBI action for a non-BPS Dp brane. We extend this proposal to the
non-abelian case and find that the duality still holds provided one promotes
the radial direction to a matrix valued field associated with a non-abelian
geometric tachyon and a particular parametrization for the transverse scalar
fields is chosen. The equations of motion of a pair of coincident D5 branes
moving in the NS5 background are determined. Analytic and numerical solutions
for the pair are found in certain simplified cases in which the U(2) symmetry
is broken to corresponding to a small transverse separation
of the pair. For certain range of parameters these solutions describe periodic
motion of the centre of mass of the pair 'bouncing off' a finite sized throat
whose minimum size is limited by the D5 branes separation.Comment: 18 pages, 2 figures, PdfLatex: references added.accepted for
publication in JHE
Refined Cigar and Omega-deformed Conifold
Antoniadis et al proposed a relation between the Omega-deformation and
refined correlation functions of the topological string theory. We investigate
the proposal for the deformed conifold geometry from a non-compact Gepner model
approach. The topological string theory on the deformed conifold has a dual
description in terms of the c=1 non-critical string theory at the self-dual
radius, and the Omega-deformation yields the radius deformation. We show that
the refined correlation functions computed from the twisted SL(2,R)/U(1)
Kazama-Suzuki coset model at level k=1 have direct c=1 non-critical string
theory interpretations. After subtracting the leading singularity to procure
the 1PI effective action, we obtain the agreement with the proposal.Comment: 15 pages, v2: reference added, v3: published versio
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