Gauge instantons from open strings

✍ Scribed by M. Frau; A. Lerda

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 2004
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 119 KB
• Volume: 52
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0015-8208
• DOI: 10.1002/prop.200410151

✦ Synopsis

Abstract

In this contribution we describe how to obtain instanton effects in four dimensional gauge theories by computing string scattering amplitudes in D3/D(‐1) brane systems. In particular we show that the disks with mixed boundary conditions, which are typical of the D3/D(‐1) system, are the sources for the classical instanton solution.