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Non-BPS D-branes and M-theory

Author(s) -

Matthias R. Gaberdiel,

Sakura SchäferNameki

Publication year - 2001

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 - 10.1088/1126-6708/2001/09/028

Subject(s) - orbifold , orientifold , compactification (mathematics) , brane cosmology , physics , string theory , theoretical physics , gauge theory , mathematical physics , mathematics , pure mathematics

A dual pair of supersymmetric string theories that involves an asymmetricorbifold and an orientifold of Type II is considered. The D-branes of theorbifold theory (that were recently determined by Gutperle) are all non-BPS anddo not carry any conserved gauge charges. It is shown that they carrynon-trivial K-theory charges, and that they can be understood in terms ofbranes wrapping certain homology classes of the M-theory compactification.Using the adiabatic argument, dual partners of some of these non-BPS D-branesare proposed. The relations between these dual states are found to be inagreement with the M-theory description of the D-branes.Comment: 21 pages, 1 figure; harvmac b-mode; reference adde

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