Orientifolds of string theory Melvin backgrounds

DOI10.1016/S0550-3213(02)00463-7MaRDI QIDQ1606145zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Carlo Angelantonj, E. Dudas, Jihad Mourad

Publication date 24 July 2002

Published in Nuclear Physics B (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0205096

zbMATH Keywords

D-branesO-planesScherk-Schwarz type supersymmetry breaking

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

String and superstring theories in gravitational theory (83E30)

Abstract: We study the dynamics of type I strings on Melvin backgrounds, with a single or multiple twisted two-planes. We construct two inequivalent types of orientifold models that correspond to (non-compact) irrational versions of Scherk-Schwarz type breaking of supersymmetry. In the first class of vacua, D-branes and O-planes are no longer localized in space-time but are smeared along the compact Melvin coordinate with a characteristic profile. On the other hand, the second class of orientifolds involves O-planes and D-branes that are both rotated by an angle proportional to the twist. In case of ``multiple Melvin spaces, some amount of supersymmetry is recovered if the planes are twisted appropriately and part of the original O-planes are transmuted into new ones. The corresponding boundary and crosscap states are determined.

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