Eigenbrane

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Noun
  1. 1
    An operator that, when applied to the boundary of a brane, produces that same brane tensored with a fixed vector space.

    "In the physical description of this program D-modules enter in the description of eigenbranes of the magnetic 't Hooft operator in a reduction of 4-dimensional N = 4 gauge theory down to a 2- dimensional sigma model."

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"In the physical description of this program D-modules enter in the description of eigenbranes of the magnetic 't Hooft operator in a reduction of 4-dimensional N = 4 gauge theory down to a 2- dimensional sigma model."

Etymology

From eigen- + brane.

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vector space

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