Open AccessD-brane charges and K-homology
Author(s) -
Vipul Periwal
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 - 10.1088/1126-6708/2000/07/041
Subject(s) - brane , homology (biology) , physics , k theory (physics) , mathematical physics , partition function (quantum field theory) , computation , theoretical physics , mathematics , quantum mechanics , chemistry , amino acid , algorithm , biochemistry
It is argued that D-brane charge takes values in K-homology. For smoothmanifolds with spin structure, this could explain why the phase factor$\Omega(x)$ calculated with a D-brane state x in IIB theory appears inDiaconescu, Moore and Witten's computation of the partition function of IIAstring theory.Comment: 5 pages, RevTe
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