Classifying A-field and B-field configurations in the presence of D-branes

DOI10.1088/1126-6708/2008/12/078MaRDI QIDQ905554zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Fabio Ferrari Ruffino, Raffaele Savelli, L. Bonora

Publication date 20 January 2016

Published in Journal of High Energy Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0810.4291

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Differential geometric aspects of gerbes and differential characters (53C08) Applications of global differential geometry to the sciences (53C80) String and superstring theories; other extended objects (e.g., branes) in quantum field theory (81T30) Anomalies in quantum field theory (81T50)

Abstract: We "solve" the Freed-Witten anomaly equation, i.e., we find a geometrical classification of the B-field and A-field configurations in the presence of D-branes that are anomaly-free. The mathematical setting being provided by the geometry of gerbes, we find that the allowed configurations are jointly described by a coset of a certain hypercohomology group. We then describe in detail various cases that arise according to such classification. As is well-known, only under suitable hypotheses the A-field turns out to be a connection on a canonical gauge bundle. However, even in these cases, there is a residual freedom in the choice of the bundle, naturally arising from the hypercohomological description. For a B-field which is flat on a D-brane, fractional or irrational charges of subbranes naturally appear; for a suitable gauge choice, they can be seen as arising from "gauge bundles with not integral Chern class": we give a precise geometric interpretation of these objects.

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