D-branes in a topologically nontrivial \(B\)-field

DOI10.4310/ATMP.2000.v4.n1.a3zbMath0992.81059arXivhep-th/9909089MaRDI QIDQ5929541

Publication date: 5 April 2001

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

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9909089

zbMATH Keywords

open strings \(K\)-theory \(B\)-field \(D\)-brane Azumaya algebra Bockstein homomorphism global worldsheet anomalies gluing functions second Stiefel-Whitney class t'Hooft magnetic flux twisted \(K\)-groups worldsheet worldsheet with a boundary

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

String and superstring theories in gravitational theory (83E30) Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in quantum field theory (81T13) String and superstring theories; other extended objects (e.g., branes) in quantum field theory (81T30) Topology of vector bundles and fiber bundles (57R22)

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