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Stable non-BPS D-particles

O. Bergman, M. R. Gaberdiel

hep-tharXiv:hep-th/9806155

Abstract

It is shown that the orbifold of type IIB string theory by (-1)FL I4 admits a stable non-BPS Dirichlet particle that is stuck on the orbifold fixed plane. It is charged under the SO(2) gauge group coming from the twisted sector, and transforms as a long multiplet of the D=6 supersymmetry algebra. This suggests that it is the strong coupling dual of the perturbative stable non-BPS state that appears in the orientifold of type IIB by ΩI4.

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