Return of the torsion D-branes

DOI10.4310/ATMP.2001.V5.N2.A4zbMATH Open1021.81049arXivhep-th/0106262OpenAlexW1573210115MaRDI QIDQ699574FDOQ699574

Authors: I. Brunner, Jacques Distler, Rahul Mahajan 

Publication date: 23 April 2003

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

Abstract: We study D-branes on Calabi-Yau manifolds, carrying charges which are torsion elements of the K-theory. Interesting physics ensues when we follow these branes into nongeometrical phases of the compactification. On the level of K-theory, we determine the monodromies of the group of charges as we circle singular loci in the closed string moduli space. Going beyond K-theory, we discuss the stability of torsion D-branes as a function of the K"ahler moduli. When the fundamental group of the Calabi-Yau is nonabelian, we find evidence for new threshold bound states of BPS branes. In a two-parameter example, we compare our results with computations in the Gepner model. Our study of the torsion D-branes in the compactification of [FHSV] sheds light on the physics of that model. In particular, we develop a proposal for the group of allowed D-brane charges in the presence of discrete RR fluxes.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0106262

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zbMATH Keywords

compactificationCalabi-Yau manifoldsBPS branesmonodromies of the group of chargesstability of torsion

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Calabi-Yau manifolds (algebro-geometric aspects) (14J32) String and superstring theories; other extended objects (e.g., branes) in quantum field theory (81T30) String and superstring theories in gravitational theory (83E30) Moduli problems for differential geometric structures (58D27)

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