Orientifolds with discrete torsion
Author(s) -
Matthias Klein,
Raúl Rabadán
Publication year - 2000
Publication title -
journal of high energy physics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.998
H-Index - 261
eISSN - 1126-6708
pISSN - 1029-8479
DOI - 10.1088/1126-6708/2000/07/040
Subject(s) - orientifold , torsion (gastropod) , tadpole (physics) , pure mathematics , projective test , mathematics , physics , theoretical physics , string theory , mathematical physics , particle physics , medicine , surgery
We show how discrete torsion can be implemented in D=4, N=1 type IIBorientifolds. Some consistency conditions are found from the closed string andopen string spectrum and from tadpole cancellation. Only real values of thediscrete torsion parameter are allowed, i.e. epsilon=+-1. Orientifold modelsare related to real projective representations. In a similar way as complexprojective representations are classified by H^2(Gamma,C^*)=H^2(Gamma,U(1)),real projective representations are characterized byH^2(Gamma,R^*)=H^2(Gamma,Z_2). Four different types of orientifoldconstructions are possible. We classify these models and give the spectrum andthe tadpole cancellation conditions explicitly.Comment: Latex, 48 pages, v2: several misprints and sign errors corrected, clarifications and references adde
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