D-sphalerons and the topology of string configuration space

DOI10.1088/1126-6708/2000/03/021zbMath0959.81038arXivhep-th/0001143OpenAlexW3104678163MaRDI QIDQ5927817

Per Kraus, Jeffrey A. Harvey, Petr Hořava

Publication date: 21 March 2001

Published in: Journal of High Energy Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0001143

zbMATH Keywords

configuration spaceD-sphaleronstachyon condensationunstable D-branes

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

String and superstring theories; other extended objects (e.g., branes) in quantum field theory (81T30) Nonperturbative methods of renormalization applied to problems in quantum field theory (81T16)

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