SELF-DUAL STRINGS AND STABILITY OF BPS STATES IN N=2 SU(2) GAUGE-THEORIES

Authors
BRANDHUBER A STIEBERGER S
Citation
A. Brandhuber et S. Stieberger, SELF-DUAL STRINGS AND STABILITY OF BPS STATES IN N=2 SU(2) GAUGE-THEORIES, Nuclear physics. B, 488(1-2), 1997, pp. 199-222
Citations number
45
Categorie Soggetti
Physics, Nuclear
Journal title
Nuclear physics. B → ACNP
ISSN journal
05503213
Volume
488
Issue
1-2
Year of publication
1997
Pages
199 - 222
Database
ISI
SICI code
0550-3213(1997)488:1-2<199:SSASOB>2.0.ZU;2-G
Abstract
We show how BPS states of supersymmetric SU(2) Yang-Mills with matter - both massless and massive - are described as self-dual strings on a Riemann surface. This connection enables us to prove the stability and the strong coupling behaviour of these states. The Riemann surface na turally arises from type-IIB Calabi-Yau compactifications whose three- branes wrapped around vanishing two-cycles correspond to one-cycles on this surface.