eigenbrane

Etymology

From eigen- + brane.

eigenbrane means an operator that, when applied to the boundary of a brane, produces that same brane tensored with a fixed vector space. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 85 out of 100.

noun

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.”