Monstrous branes

DOI10.1007/S00220-002-0763-7zbMath1029.81056arXivhep-th/0202074OpenAlexW3037507539MaRDI QIDQ1400907

Jeffrey A. Harvey, Ben Craps, Matthias R. Gaberdiel

Publication date: 17 August 2003

Published in: Communications in Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We study D-branes in the bosonic closed string theory whose automorphism group is the Bimonster group (the wreath product of the Monster simple group with Z_2). We give a complete classification of D-branes preserving the chiral subalgebra of Monster invariants and show that they transform in a representation of the Bimonster. Our results apply more generally to self-dual conformal field theories which admit the action of a compact Lie group on both the left- and right-moving sectors.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0202074

zbMATH Keywords

conformal field theoryD-branesBimonster group

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Simple groups: sporadic groups (20D08) Two-dimensional field theories, conformal field theories, etc. in quantum mechanics (81T40) String and superstring theories in gravitational theory (83E30) Vertex operators; vertex operator algebras and related structures (17B69) String and superstring theories; other extended objects (e.g., branes) in quantum field theory (81T30) Applications of Lie groups to the sciences; explicit representations (22E70)

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