Three-pronged strings and 14 BPS states in N = 4 super-Yang-Mills theory Original Research Article

We provide an explicit construction of 14 BPS states in four-dimensional N = 4 super-Yang-Mills theory with a gauge group SU(3). These states correspond to three-pronged strings connecting three D3-branes. We also find curves of marginal stability in the moduli space of the theory, at which the above states can decay into two 1/2 BPS states.