BPS Bound States Of D0-D6 And D0-D8 Systems In A B-Field

Edward Witten

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BPS Bound States Of D0-D6 And D0-D8 Systems In A B-Field

Edward Witten

High Energy Physics - Theory · Submitted 7 Dec 2000 · 32 references

Pith's verdict: A clean, short paper that gets a real conceptual point — BPS state counts can jump across a codimension-one locus — with one link (R^10 to T^6) asserted rather than argued.

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CitationEdward Witten. "BPS Bound States Of D0-D6 And D0-D8 Systems In A B-Field." arXiv:hep-th/0012054 (2000). https://pith.science/paper/2RF2MIEU

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The thing worth your time here is the jump. Witten shows that the D0-D6 system in a constant B-field is supersymmetric on the locus v1+v2+v3 = 1/2, that the NS ground state energy is E = 1/4 - (1/2)Σvi, and that the low-energy 0+1 dimensional U(1) theory has a Fayet-Iliopoulos parameter r = Σvi - 1/2. For r > 0 there is a supersymmetric vacuum at |φ| = √r; for r < 0 there is not. Compactify on T^6 and the number of 1/8 BPS states changes as you move the moduli. That is a concrete counterexample, in a compactification with 32 supercharges, to the reflex that BPS counts are moduli-independent, and it is the kind of example people counting four-dimensional black hole microstates should have in front of them. The multi-brane generalization is a nice bonus: the Tα = 0 moduli space comes out as a Grassmannian, with bound states only for M ≥ N. Section 2 is textbook-clean, and the noncommutative Yang-Mills check in section 4 reproduces (4.2) from (4.13) as it should. Witten flags in the introduction that section 4 was largely anticipated by [4]; that disclosure is handled correctly and is not a problem. The supersymmetry locus and the sign of the NS energy are credited to [3] in the text, also correctly. One correction to the reader's report: r is not assumed by analogy with D0-D4. Its sign and magnitude come straight out of (3.6); the analogy supplies only the EFT structure, which the four-supercharge field content and the D-term moment map already fix. The real soft spot is the one the stress test names. The index argument is given in R^10, where the Coulomb branch gives a continuous spectrum above threshold r^2 and the counting of zero-energy states breaks down at r = 0. On T^6 the Coulomb branch is compact and the spectrum discrete, so that mechanism does not literally transfer; the compact case needs its own statement that the gap closes at r = 0 and nothing flows in from infinity. The paper gives one sentence: 'the discussion is not much modified by compactification.' I believe the conclusion, but that is the least-secured step, and it is the step the abstract leans on. The D0-D8 section is thinner still — the second locus and the energy (3.14) are fine, but the bound-state claim there is asserted with less support than the D0-D6 case, and the paper says so in effect. Read it for the D0-D6 index jump and the moduli space. It deserves a referee, though I doubt a referee would find much beyond the T^6 gap to press on.

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[Section 3.2, final paragraph; abstract s2] The index-jump argument is given for R^10 and then extended to T^6 in a single sentence (the discussion is 'not much modified by compactification' and 'carries over directly'). The R^10 mechanism is specifically noncompact: for r<0 the Coulomb branch is noncompact, so the spectrum is continuous above threshold r^2, and at r=0 the counting of zero-energy states breaks down. On a compact torus the Coulomb branch is compact and the spectrum discrete, so the stated continuum mechanism does not literally apply. The compact case needs the gap-closing version spelled out: for r<0 the spectrum has a gap of order r^2 and Tr(-1)^F=0, for r>0 the isolated massive vacuum gives Tr(-1)^F=1, and the two meet at r=0 where the BPS state becomes massless. I believe the conclusion is correct and that the compact case is in fact cleaner than the noncompact one, but since this is the abstract's headline claim, the paper should supply the compact-case argument rather than assert it.
[Section 3.4; abstract s4] The D0-D8 bound-state claim rests only on the sign of the NS ground-state energy (3.14) for sum v_i > 1 together with the sentence that the system 'presumably decays to a supersymmetric or BPS ground state.' Unlike Section 3.2, there is no effective-field-theory analysis of the D-term potential, and with only two unbroken supercharges the quantum-mechanical vacuum is considerably less constrained. The abstract's 'In a certain range, the D0-D8 system also has a BPS bound state' reads as an established result, whereas the text is explicitly conjectural. Either supply the analog of (3.9)-(3.10) for the D0-D8 system, or soften the abstract so that it matches the confidence of the text.

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[Section 3.1, negative-v3 case] The passage from the tachyonic NS ground state of energy (3.8) to the unique GSO-even massless state, via the lowest fermion oscillator of energy |v3|, is compressed. A sentence or two making the GSO projection explicit would help the reader.
[Section 3.3, Eq. (3.10) and the following parenthetical] The index structure of the term phi_{ik} phi_{kj} (k=1,...,M, j=1,...,N) and the phrase 'phi^k_j ... transforms of course as (N,M)' are hard to parse. Please state the matrix dimensions and the U(N) x U(M) representation assignments once, cleanly.
[Section 3.4] The phrase 'there is not evidence of a BPS bound state' is ambiguous; 'there is no evidence' or 'we have not found evidence' would be clearer.
[Section 3.4] The paper does not state the BPS fraction of the D0-D8 bound state. By analogy with the D0-D6 case it should be 1/16 (two of the 32 supercharges); please state this explicitly.
[Section 4, Eq. (4.10)] Please check the sign and index structure of (4.10) against (4.5) and (4.8). With G = -(2 pi alpha')^2 B g^{-1} B and theta = B^{-1}, the anticommutator of (4.10) appears to give -2 G^{-1} rather than 2G. The final check (4.13) against (4.2) works out, so this is likely a convention, but the convention should be stated.
[References and acknowledgments] Reference [15] 'hep-th/960139' appears to be missing a digit (Berkooz-Douglas-Leigh is hep-th/9601039); reference [10] 'hep-th/00008204' should be hep-th/0008204; reference [14] has a stray apostrophe after 'Breaking'; reference [16] 'Phys.l Lett.' should be 'Phys. Lett.'; and the acknowledgment 'Discoverty Fund' should be 'Discovery Fund.'

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A magnetic field can switch a BPS bound state on or off

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Witten asks whether the number of stable, supersymmetric (BPS) states in a string compactification can change as the moduli of that compactification are varied. The test case is a D0-brane sitting inside a D6-brane with a constant Neveu-Schwarz $B$-field turned on: without the field the pair breaks all supersymmetry, but with it there is a codimension-one locus $v_1+v_2+v_3=1/2$ on which a quarter of the D0-D6 supersymmetries survive. Quantizing the 0-6 string gives a Neveu-Schwarz ground state energy of $1/4 - (1/2)(v_1+v_2+v_3)$, so the system is stable on one side of that locus and tachyonic on the other. Witten argues that on the tachyonic side the D0 and D6 bind into a single massive supersymmetric object, and on the other side they do not, so compactification on $T^6$ gives a vacuum in which the number of $1/8$ BPS states jumps as a modulus crosses the locus. The interest is not the jump by itself but that it happens with all 32 supercharges of the toroidal compactification unbroken, where such counts are usually taken to be rigid.

What carries the argument

The load-bearing device is the identification of $r = v_1+v_2+v_3-1/2$ with the Fayet-Iliopoulos parameter of the D0-brane quantum mechanics, so that the D-term potential $V sim (|varphi|^2-r)^2$ converts a worldsheet ground-state energy computation into a statement about which side of the supersymmetric locus supports a Higgsed, massive, supersymmetric vacuum. The worldsheet side of the argument is the reflection matrix: a string ending on the D6-brane in a $B$-field is rotated by an $SO(6)$ element $M$ built from the three angles $v_i$, and unbroken supersymmetry requires $rho(-M)epsilon = epsilon$, i.e. that $-M$ lie in an $SU(3)$ subgroup, which is exactly $v_1+v_2+v_3=1/2$. The two computations meet because the same angles fix both the spinor projection and the Neveu-Schwarz zero-point energy.

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The paper establishes that the D0-D6 system in a constant $B$-field has a supersymmetric locus of real codimension one, $v_1+v_2+v_3=1/2$, where the $v_i$ are the three rotation angles conjugate to the $B$-field blocks and are related to it by $e^{2i v_i}=(1+ib_i)/(1-ib_i)$. On this locus the 0-6 and 6-0 strings contribute a single massless chiral multiplet, and the low-energy quantum mechanics is a $0+1$ dimensional $U(1)$ gauge theory with four supercharges, a chiral multiplet $Phi$, and a Fayet-Iliopoulos parameter $r=v_1+v_2+v_3-1/2$ entering the potential as $V sim (|varphi|^2-r)^2$. For $r<0$ the vacuum sits at $varphi=0$ with supersymmetry spontaneously broken and a Coulomb branch along which the branes separate; for $r>0$ the stable vacuum has $|varphi|=sqrt{r}$, the gauge symmetry is Higgsed, every component of the vector and chiral multiplets is massive, and the object is a D0-D6 bound state. The index $mathrm{Tr}(-1)^F$ therefore reads $0$ on one side and $1$ on the other, which is possible only because at $r=0$ the continuous spectrum above the $varphi=0$ vacuum begins at zero energy and the counting of zero-energy states degenerates. Compactified on $T^6$ with the D6 wrapped, the $r>0$ vacuum is a finite-energy $1/8$ BPS state, so the number of such states jumps as the moduli are changed. The paper then repeats the analysis for D0-D8, where a second supersymmetric locus $sum_i v_i = 1$ (with all $v_i$ positive, $0 le v_i < 1/2$) is not continuously connected to the familiar $B=0$ D0-D8 system, and where the Neveu-Schwarz ground state energy $(1/2)(1-sum_i v_i)$ again changes sign, giving a bound state for $sum_i v_i > 1$. Finally, taking $b_i to pminfty$ while preserving supersymmetry, the condition becomes $pm 1/b_1 pm 1/b_2 pm 1/b_3 = 0$, which is reproduced independently in noncommutative Yang-Mills theory from the gluino variation $delta lambda = hat{Gamma}^{ij}hat{F}_{ij}epsilon + epsilon'$ evaluated on the rank-one soliton with $hat{F}_{ij} = -Pi, theta^{-1}_{ij}$.

Load-bearing premise

The bound-state claim depends on reading the D0-D6 quantum mechanics as a $U(1)$ gauge theory whose Fayet-Iliopoulos parameter is $r=v_1+v_2+v_3-1/2$, an identification made by analogy with the D0-D4 system rather than derived from the worldsheet, and on the classical $r>0$ Higgs vacuum surviving quantum corrections.

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In Type IIA string theory on $T^6$, the count of $1/8$ BPS states is not a topological invariant of the vacuum: it changes as the $B$-field moduli cross the locus $v_1+v_2+v_3=1/2$.
The D0-D6 bound state exists only when the Fayet-Iliopoulos parameter is positive, so unlike D0-D4 instantons it has no zero-$B$ analogue and its size is bounded by the trace of the D-term equation.
For $N$ D0-branes and $M$ D6-branes the classical moduli space of bound states is the space of $N$-plets of orthonormal vectors in $mathbb{C}^M$ modulo $U(N)$, i.e. a Grassmannian $U(M)/(U(N) times U(M-N))$ when the transverse scalars vanish, which requires $M ge N$.
The D0-D8 system has a second supersymmetric locus, not connected to the $B=0$ one, and on that locus it develops a bound state when $sum_i v_i > 1$.
In the large-$B$ limit the supersymmetric D0-D6 and D0-D8 configurations and their bound states admit a noncommutative Yang-Mills description, so the decay to the bound state could in principle be followed there.

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If the count of $1/8$ BPS states can jump under a smooth change of moduli with all 32 supercharges unbroken, then any microscopic counting of four-dimensional BPS black hole states that assumes moduli-independence across such a locus needs to be checked against this example.
The mechanism is local: a continuous spectrum whose threshold touches zero at the locus. The same pattern should produce jumps wherever a would-be BPS state sits at the edge of a continuum, which suggests looking for analogous degenerations in other D$p$-D$p' systems with a codimension-one supersymmetric locus.
The paper's index argument is a semi-classical one, resting on the $r>0$ vacuum being isolated and massive. A direct worldsheet or matrix-model computation of the $r>0$ ground state, rather than an argument from the absence of a Goldstone fermion, would be the natural next check.

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The D0-D6 system, which is not supersymmetric in the absence of a Neveu-Schwarz B-field, becomes supersymmetric if a suitable constant B-field is turned on. On one side of the supersymmetric locus, this system has a BPS bound state, and on the other side it does not. After compactification on T^6, this gives a simple example in which the number of 1/8 BPS states jumps as the moduli of the compactification are changed. The D0-D8 system in a B-field has two different supersymmetric loci, only one of which is continuously connected to the familiar supersymmetric D0-D8 system without a B-field. In a certain range, the D0-D8 system also has a BPS bound state. In the limit in which the B-field goes to infinity, supersymmetric D0-D6 and D0-D8 systems and their bound states can be studied using noncommutative Yang-Mills theory.

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The D0-D6 system, which is not supersymmetric in the absence of a Neveu-Schwarz B-field, becomes supersymmetric if a suitable constant B-field is turned on. On one side of the supersymmetric locus, this system has a BPS bound state, and on the other side it does not. After compactification on T^6, this gives a simple example in which the number of 1/8 BPS states jumps as the moduli of the compactification are changed. The D0-D8 system in a B-field has two different supersymmetric loci, only one of which is continuously connected to the familiar supersymmetric D0-D8 system without a B-field. In a certain range, the D0-D8 system also has a BPS bound state. In the limit in which the B-field goes to infinity, supersymmetric D0-D6 and D0-D8 systems and their bound states can be studied using noncommutative Yang-Mills theory.

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Adding the background D6 brane extends this quiver by a new $U(1)$ node, with a single field, $q$, coming from the 0-6 strings, transforming in the bifundamental, as shown in [ref] .

Topological Quiver Matrix Models and Quantum Foam · Introduction · 0.88
Some of the future directions in which this work could be continued are listed in the following. * According to [ref] , a supersymmetric bound state can be formed by the D$1$-D$9$ system if we turn on a constant $B$-field satisfying [equation] Therefore, we can generalize the tetrahedron instantons by adding a stack of D$9$-branes without further breaking the supersymmetry if the $B$-field satisfies the condition [equation] This generalization can also be viewed as instantons in the magnificent four model with all possible real codimension-two defects.

Tetrahedron instantons · Conclusions and future directions · 0.83

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We will follow [ref] to account for the B-field background– recall we have turned B-field on $TN_1$[Note that the D6-branes at angles configuration is equivalent to D0-D6 brane system with B-field on ND directions [ref] .].

Evidence for an Algebra of $\boldsymbol{G_2}$ Instantons · String quantization · 0.94
In general, this choice of flux will break supersymmetry on the D8-brane, though the D0-brane may still experience an effective supersymmetric quantum mechanics.[Following [ref] , to study the unbroken supersymmetries in the presence of this flux, introduce the block diagonal matrix $M$ in the $8_v$ representation (see e.g. [ref] ): M=i=14⊕M_i, M_i=[ [ cos2πv_i sin2πv_i; -sin2πv_i cos2πv_i ] ] . where each $v_j$ is given by: exp2πiv_j=1+if_j/1-if_j.

Instantons, Twistors, and Emergent Gravity · Brane Construction · 0.88

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The critical value of the field [ref] also agrees with the value computed in perturbative string theory [ref] .

Black Rings in Taub-NUT and D0-D6 interactions · Extremal ring with $B≠0$ · 0.93
This is reminiscent of the same phenomenon discussed in [ref] .

D1-D3 (or $\bar{\textrm{D}3}$) Systems with Fluxes · Conclusions and Discussions · 0.98

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In other words, instanton solutions on $^6$ or $^8$ only exist for $ξ>0$: there are no stable BPS bound states of D$0$–D$(2n)$-branes in $2n$ dimensions for $n=3,4$ unless a (supersymmetry preserving) Kalb-Ramond field is turned on [ref] .

Noncommutative Instantons in Diverse Dimensions · ADHM Quiver Matrix Model · 0.99
The reason why we should impose the constraint [ref] might be related to the fact that $D6$-$D0$ system cannot make a BPS bound state without an appropriate flux along the $D6$ branes [ref] .

Quiver Matrix Model and Topological Partition Function in Six Dimensions · Introduction · 0.98
Thus the interesting case for us is $ζ>0$; in this case the D1–D9-brane system is tachyonic and unstable [ref] , so it decays to a supersymmetric vacuum via tachyon condensation.

Instanton Counting and Donaldson-Thomas Theory on Toric Calabi-Yau Four-Orbifolds · Physical Interpretation · 0.97

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D0 – D8 bound states were considered in [ref] as UV descriptions of $𝒩=(8,0)$ superconformal quantum mechanics.

$\textrm{AdS}_{2}\times S^7$ solutions from D0 $-$ F1 $-$ D8 intersections · AdS$_2$ solutions from D0 – F1 – D8 intersections · 0.83
The problem of adhering $D0$-branes to $D6$-branes in a supersymmetric manner was first considered by Witten [ref] [See also related work in [ref] .].

Constituent Model of Extremal non-BPS Black Holes · Multi-center BPS solutions and decay of the non-BPS $D0-D6$ black holes · 0.97
We also turn on a background B-field [ref] , and the chamber structures could depend on its value.

The Origin of Calabi-Yau Crystals in BPS States Counting · Introduction and Summary · 0.82

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