Flux compactifications on projective spaces and the S-duality puzzle

DOI10.4310/ATMP.2006.V10.N3.A3zbMATH Open1129.81062arXivhep-th/0501110OpenAlexW2081778338MaRDI QIDQ2457741FDOQ2457741

Authors: P. Bouwknegt, Jarah Evslin, Branislav Jurčo, Varghese Mathai, Hisham Sati 

Publication date: 23 October 2007

Published in: Advances in Theoretical and Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We derive a formula for D3-brane charge on a compact spacetime, which includes torsion corrections to the tadpole cancellation condition. We use this to classify D-branes and RR fluxes in type II string theory on RP^3xRP^{2k+1}xS^{6-2k} with torsion H-flux and to demonstrate the conjectured T-duality to S^3xS^{2k+1}xS^{6-2k} with no flux. When k=1, H eq 0 and so the K-theory that classifies fluxes is twisted. When k=2 the square of the H-flux yields an S-dual Freed-Witten anomaly which is canceled by a D3-brane insertion that ruins the K-theory classification. When k=3 the cube of H is nontrivial and so the D3 insertion may itself be inconsistent and the compactification unphysical. Along the way we provide a physical interpretation for the AHSS in terms of boundaries of branes within branes.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0501110

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quantum field theory on curved space or space-time backgrounds (81T20) String and superstring theories; other extended objects (e.g., branes) in quantum field theory (81T30) String and superstring theories in gravitational theory (83E30) Miscellaneous applications of (K)-theory (19M05) Operations and obstructions in algebraic topology (55Sxx)

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• Flux quantization and the M-theoretic characters
• Twisted Morava \(K\)-theory and connective covers of Lie groups
• A higher twist in string theory
• Geometric K-homology of flat D-branes
• IIB soliton spectra with all fluxes activated
• Homology and K-theory methods for classes of branes wrapping nontrivial cycles

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