Aspects of D-brane dynamics on orbifolds

FAHEEM HUSSAIN; ROBERTO IENGO; CARMEN A. NÚÑEZ; CLAUDIO SCRUCCA

Neuchatel

Conferencia; Quantum Aspects of Gauge Theories, Supersymmetry and Unification; 1998

University of Neuchatel, Switzerland

We discuss D-brane dynamics in orbifold compactifications of type II superstring theory. We compute the interaction potential between two D-branes moving with constant velocities and give a field theory interpretation of it in the large distance limit.