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Phys. Rev. Lett. 85, 4664–4667 (2000)

Brane World Generated Dynamically from String Type IIB Matrices

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Jun Nishimura* and Graziano Vernizzi
The Niels Bohr Institute, Blegdamsvej 17, DK-2100 Copenhagen Ø, Denmark

Received 21 August 2000; published in the issue dated 27 November 2000

We have recently proposed a dynamical mechanism that may realize a flat four-dimensional space-time as a brane in type IIB superstring theory. A crucial role is played by the phase of the chiral fermion integral associated with the IKKT (Ishibashi-Kawai-Kitazawa-Tsuchiya) matrix theory, which is conjectured to be a nonperturbative definition of type IIB superstring theory. We demonstrate our mechanism by studying a simplified model, in which we find that a lower-dimensional brane indeed appears dynamically. We also comment on some implications of our mechanism on model building of the brane world.

© 2000 The American Physical Society

URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.85.4664
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevLett.85.4664
PACS:
11.25.Mj, 11.10.Kk, 11.25.Sq

*Electronic address: nisimura@nbi.dk Permanent address: Department of Physics, Nagoya University, Nagoya 464-8602, Japan.

Electronic address: vernizzi@nbi.dk