Abstract
Dvali and Shifman have proposed a field-theoretic mechanism for localizing gauge fields to “branes” in higher dimensional spaces using confinement in a bulk gauge theory. The resulting objects have a number of qualitative features in common with string theory D-branes; they support a gauge field and flux strings can end on them. In this letter, we explore this analogy further, by considering what happens when N of these “branes” approach each other. Unlike in the case of D-branes, we find a reduction of the gauge symmetry as the “branes” overlap. This can be attributed to a tachyonic instability of the flux string stretching between the branes.
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