BRANES INTERSECTING AT ANGLES

Citation
M. Berkooz et al., BRANES INTERSECTING AT ANGLES, Nuclear physics. B, 480(1-2), 1996, pp. 265-278
Citations number
33
Categorie Soggetti
Physics, Nuclear
Journal title
ISSN journal
05503213
Volume
480
Issue
1-2
Year of publication
1996
Pages
265 - 278
Database
ISI
SICI code
0550-3213(1996)480:1-2<265:BIAA>2.0.ZU;2-A
Abstract
We show that configurations of multiple D-branes related by SU(N) rota tions will preserve unbroken supersymmetry. This includes cases in whi ch two D-branes are related by a rotation of arbitrarily small angle, and we discuss some of the physics of this. In particular, we discuss a way of obtaining 4D chiral fermions on the intersection of D-branes. We also rephrase the condition for unbroken supersymmetry as the cond ition that a 'generalized holonomy group' associated with the brane co nfiguration and manifold is reduced, and relate this condition (in typ e IIA string theory) to a condition in eleven dimensions.