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- Title
Geometric K-Homology of Flat D-Branes.
- Authors
Reis, Rui M. G.; Szabo, Richard J.
- Abstract
We use the Baum-Douglas construction of K-homology to explicitly describe various aspects of D-branes in Type II superstring theory in the absence of background supergravity form fields. We rigorously derive various stability criteria for states of D-branes and show how standard bound state constructions are naturally realized directly in terms of topological K-cycles. We formulate the mechanism of flux stabilization in terms of the K-homology of non-trivial fibre bundles. Along the way we derive a number of new mathematical results in topological K-homology of independent interest.
- Subjects
ALGEBRAIC topology; HOMOLOGICAL algebra; HOMOLOGY theory; SUPERSYMMETRY; GENERAL relativity (Physics); MATHEMATICAL physics
- Publication
Communications in Mathematical Physics, 2006, Vol 266, Issue 1, p71
- ISSN
0010-3616
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s00220-006-0010-8