Dynamics of DirichletNeumann Open Strings on Dbranes.pdfVIP

PUPT-1642 hep-th/9608127 Dynamics of Dirichlet-Neumann Open Strings 6 on D-branes 9 9 1 g u A 0 2 Akikazu Hashimoto 1 Joseph Henry Laboratories v 7 Princeton University 2 Princeton, New Jersey 08544 1 8 0 6 9 / h t - p e Abstract h : Method for computing scattering amplitudes of open strings with Dirichlet boundary on v i one end and Neumann boundary condition on the other is described. Vertex operator X for these states are constructed using twist fields which have been studied previously r a in the context of Ashkin-Teller model and strings on orbifolds. Using these vertex operators, we compute the three- and four-point scattering amplitudes for (5,9) strings on 5-branes and 9-branes. In the low energy limit, these amplitudes are found to be in exact agreement with the field theory amplitudes for supersymmetric Yang-Mills coupled to hypermultiplets in 6-dimensions. We also consider the 1-brane 5-brane system and compute the amplitude for a pair of (1,5) strings to collide and to escape the brane as a closed string. (1,5) strings are found to be remarkably selective in their coupling to massless closed strings in NS-NS sector; they only couple to the dilaton. August 1996 1 Introduction String solitons and non-perturbative dynamics of string theory have been a subject of fas- cination for some time. Remarkable progress has been made recently in the understand