Adhering 0-branes to 6-branes and 8-branes Original Research Article

A Yang-Mills solution is constructed on T6 which corresponds to a brane configuration composed purely of 0-branes and 6-branes. This configuration breaks all supersymmetries and has an energy greater than the sum of the energies of its components; nonetheless, the configuration is stable classically, at least to quadratic order. An analogous construction is also given for a system of 0-branes and 8-branes on T8. These constructions may prove to be useful for describing 6-branes and 8-branes in M(atrix)-theory.