On Decay of K-theory
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Publication:6467597
arXivhep-th/0212059MaRDI QIDQ6467597FDOQ6467597
Authors: Emil J. Martinec, G. W. Moore 
Publication date: 4 December 2002
Abstract: Closed string tachyon condensation resolves the singularities of nonsupersymmetric orbifolds, however the resolved space typically has fewer D-brane charges than that of the orbifold. The description of the tachyon condensation process via a gauged linear sigma model enables one to track the topology as one passes from the sigma model's ``orbifold phase to its resolved, ``geometric phase, and thus to follow how the D-brane charges disappear from the effective spacetime dynamics. As a mathematical consequence, our results point the way to a formulation of a ``quantum McKay correspondence for the resolution of toric orbifold singularities.
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