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Nuclear Physics B

Volume 569, Issues 1–3, 13 March 2000, Pages 247-261
Nuclear Physics B

Instanton moduli and brane creation

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Abstract

We obtain new intersecting 5-brane, string and pp-wave solutions in the heterotic string on a torus and on a K3 manifold. In the former case the 5-brane is supported by Yang–Mills instantons, and in the latter case both the 5-brane and the string are supported by the instantons. The instanton moduli are parameterised by the sizes and locations of the instantons. We exhibit two kinds of phase transition in which, for suitable choices of the instanton moduli, a 5-brane and/or a string can be created. One kind of phase transition occurs when the size of an instanton vanishes, while the other occurs when a pair of Yang–Mills instantons coalesce. We also study the associated five-dimensional black holes and the implications of these phase transitions for the black-hole entropy. Specifically, we find that the entropy of the three-charge black holes is zero when the instantons are separated and of non-zero scale size, but becomes non-zero (which can be counted microscopically) after either of the phase transitions.

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Research supported in part by DOE grant DE-FG02-95ER40893.

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Research supported in part by DOE grant DE-AC02-76ER03071.

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Research supported in part by DOE Grant DE-FG03-95ER40917.