eigenbrane

English

Etymology

eigen- +‎ brane

Noun

eigenbrane (plural eigenbranes)

1. An operator that, when applied to the boundary of a brane, produces that same brane tensored with a fixed vector space.
   • 2009, Lotte Hollands, Topological Strings and Quantum Curves, page 188:

     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.