T-duality for orientifolds and twisted KR-theory

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DOI10.1007/S11005-014-0715-0zbMATH Open1304.19004arXiv1306.1779OpenAlexW3102367654MaRDI QIDQ479683FDOQ479683


Authors: Stefan Mendez-Diez, C. F. Doran, Jonathan M. Rosenberg Edit this on Wikidata


Publication date: 5 December 2014

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

Abstract: D-brane charges in orientifold string theories are classified by the KR-theory of Atiyah. However, this is assuming that all O-planes have the same sign. When there are O-planes of different signs, physics demands a "KR-theory with a sign choice" which up until now has not been studied by mathematicians (with the unique exception of Moutuou, who didn't have a specific application in mind). We give a definition of this theory and compute it for orientifold theories compactified on a circle and 2-torus. We also explain how and why additional "twisting" is implemented. We show that our results satisfy all possible T-duality relationships for orientifold string theories on elliptic curves, which will be studied further in subsequent work.


Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1306.1779




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