The Splitting of Branes on Orientifold Planes

TL;DR

This paper explores the process of brane splitting on orientifold planes in string theory, analyzing the associated brane creation/annihilation phenomena and validating results with Seiberg-Witten curves.

Contribution

It introduces a detailed study of brane splitting on orientifold planes, including new insights into brane dynamics and validation via Seiberg-Witten curves for p=4.

Findings

Brane splitting involves creation or annihilation of Dp-branes.

Seiberg-Witten curves confirm the splitting process for p=4.

The process extends understanding of brane interactions on orientifold planes.

Abstract

Continuing the study in hep-th/0004092 and hep-th/0004092, we investigate a non-trivial string dynamical process related to orientifold planes, i.e., the splitting of physical NS-branes and D(p+2)-branes on orientifold Op-planes. Creation or annihilation of physical Dp-branes usually accompanies the splitting process. In the particular case p=4, we use Seiberg-Witten curves as an independent method to check the results.