Branes, weights and central charges

DOI10.1007/JHEP06(2013)019zbMATH Open1342.83328arXiv1303.0221OpenAlexW2040012599MaRDI QIDQ303341FDOQ303341

Authors: Eric A. Bergshoeff, Fabio Riccioni, Luca Romano 

Publication date: 12 August 2016

Published in: Journal of High Energy Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We study the properties of half-supersymmetric branes in string theory with 32 supercharges from a purely group-theoretical point of view using the U-duality symmetry of maximal supergravity and the R-symmetry of the corresponding supersymmetry algebra. In particular, we show that half-supersymmetric branes are always associated to the longest weights of the U-duality representation of the potentials coupling to them. We compare the features of branes with three or more transverse directions (that we call "standard" branes) to those with two or less transverse directions (that we denominate "non-standard" branes). We show why the BPS condition of the non-standard branes is in general degenerate and for each case we calculate this degeneracy. We furthermore show how the orbits of multi-charge configurations of non-standard branes can be calculated and give the U-duality invariants describing these orbits. We show that different orbits of non-standard branes can have the same BPS condition.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1303.0221

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zbMATH Keywords

D-branesp-branes

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

String and superstring theories; other extended objects (e.g., branes) in quantum field theory (81T30) String and superstring theories in gravitational theory (83E30)

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