Twisted differential K-characters and D-branes

DOI10.1016/J.NUCLPHYSB.2020.115169zbMATH Open1472.81192arXiv2009.04223OpenAlexW3084246617MaRDI QIDQ822993FDOQ822993

Authors: Fabio Ferrari Ruffino, Juan Carlos Rocha Barriga 

Publication date: 24 September 2021

Published in: Nuclear Physics B (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We analyse in detail the language of partially non-abelian Deligne cohomology and of twisted differential K-theory, in order to describe the geometry of type II superstring backgrounds with D-branes. This description will also provide the opportunity to show some mathematical results of independent interest. In particular, we begin classifying the possible gauge theories on a D-brane or on a stack of D-branes using the intrinsic tool of long exact sequences. Afterwards, we recall how to construct two relevant models of differential twisted K-theory, paying particular attention to the dependence on the twisting cocycle within its cohomology class. In this way we will be able to define twisted K-homology and twisted Cheeger-Simons K-characters in the category of simply-connected manifolds, eliminating any unnatural dependence on the cocycle. The ambiguity left for non simply-connected manifolds will naturally correspond to the ambiguity in the gauge theory, following the previous classification. This picture will allow for a complete characterization of D-brane world-volumes, the Wess-Zumino action and topological D-brane charges within the K-theoretical framework, that can be compared step by step to the old cohomological classification. This has already been done for backgrounds with vanishing B-field; here we remove this hypothesis.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.04223

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in mechanics of particles and systems (70S15) String and superstring theories; other extended objects (e.g., branes) in quantum field theory (81T30) Supersymmetric field theories in quantum mechanics (81T60) Twisted (K)-theory; differential (K)-theory (19L50) Homological methods in functional analysis (exact sequences, right inverses, lifting, etc.) (46M18) Nonabelian homological algebra (category-theoretic aspects) (18G50)

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