1998/01/26 by Shmuel Elitzur, Amit Giveon, David Kutasov +1
Mathematics · Physics and Astronomy · #Black Holes and Theoretical Physics #Brane cosmology #Cosmology and Gravitation Theories #Gauge theory #Hamiltonian lattice gauge theory #Mathematical physics #Mathematics #Moduli space #Orientifold #Particle physics #Physics #Pure mathematics #Quantum Chromodynamics and Particle Interactions #String field theory #String theory #Supersymmetric gauge theory #Symplectic geometry #Theoretical physics #Worldsheet #hep-th
paper · pdf · doi:10.1016/s0550-3213(98)00165-5
published as Nucl.Phys. B524 (1998) 251-268 · Latex, 17 pages, minor wording change
arxiv created 1998/01/26 · openalex publication_date 1998/07/01 · arxiv updated 2009/11/30 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05
We discuss some aspects of the physics of branes in the presence of orientifolds and the corresponding worldvolume gauge dynamics. We show that at strong coupling orientifolds sometimes turn into bound states of orientifolds and branes, and give a worldsheet argument for the flip of the sign of an orientifold plane split into two disconnected parts by an NS fivebrane. We also describe the moduli space of vacua of N=2 supersymmetric gauge theories with symplectic and orthogonal gauge groups, and analyze a set of four dimensional N=1 supersymmetric gauge theories with chiral matter content using branes.