1997/12/31 by Constantin P. Bachas, C. P. Bachas, Michael Green +1 · 1 citation
Physics and Astronomy · #Black Holes and Theoretical Physics #Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies #Quantum Chromodynamics and Particle Interactions #hep-th
paper · pdf · doi:10.1088/1126-6708/1998/01/015
published as JHEP 9801 (1998) 015 · harvmac 6 pages. Final version as published in JHEP
arxiv created 1998/01/28 · openalex publication_date 1998/01/31 · arxiv updated 2009/11/30 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
The occupied and unoccupied fermionic BPS quantum states of a type-IIA string stretched between a D6-brane and an orthogonal D2-brane are described in M-theory by two particular holomorphic curves embedded in a Kaluza-Klein monopole. The absence of multiply-occupied fermionic states --- the Pauli exclusion principle --- is manifested in M-theory by the absence of any other holomorphic curves satisfying the necessary boundary conditions. Stable, non-BPS states with multiple strings joining the D6-brane and D2-brane are described M-theoretically by non-holomorphic curves.