310 research outputs found
Magnetic Fluxes, NS-NS Field and Shifts in Four-Dimensional Orientifolds
We discuss the interplay between freely acting orbifold actions, discrete
deformations and internal uniform magnetic fields in four-dimensional
orientifold models.Comment: 12 pages, 3 figures, LaTeX file. Contribution to the Proceedings of
the "String Phenomenology 2003" conference, Durham, England, 29th July - 4th
August 200
Type-I vacua from non-geometric Orbifolds
Some examples of Type-I vacua related to non geometric orbifolds are shown.
In particular, the open descendants of the diagonal orbifold are compared
with the geometric ones. Although not chiral, these models exhibit some
interesting properties, like twisted sectors in the open-string spectra and the
presence of ``quantized'' geometric moduli, a key ingredient to ensure their
perturbative consistency and to explain the rank reduction of their Chan-Paton
groups.Comment: Contribution to the Proceedings of IX Marcel Grossman Meeting, Rome,
ITALY, July 2-8, 200
Fixed point resolution in extended WZW-models
A formula is derived for the fixed point resolution matrices of simple
current extended WZW-models and coset conformal field theories. Unlike the
analogous matrices for unextended WZW-models, these matrices are in general not
symmetric, and they may have field-dependent twists. They thus provide
non-trivial realizations of the general conditions presented in earlier work
with Fuchs and Schweigert.Comment: 21 pages, Phyzz
Non-geometric orbifolds and wrapping rules
We show that the number of half-supersymmetric p-branes in the Type II
theories compactified on orbifolds is determined by the wrapping rules recently
introduced, provided that one accounts correctly for both geometric and
non-geometric T-dual configurations. Starting from the Type II theories
compactified on K3, we analyze their toroidal dimensional reductions, showing
how the resulting half-supersymmetric p-branes satisfy the wrapping rules only
by taking into account all the possible higher-dimensional origins. We then
consider Type II theories compactified on the orbifold T^6/(Z_2 \times Z_2 ),
whose massless four-dimensional theory is an N=2 supergravity. Again, the
wrapping rules are obeyed only if one includes the complete orbit of the
T-duality group, namely either Type IIA or Type IIB theories compactified on
either the geometric or the non-geometric T-dual orbifold. Finally, we comment
on the interpretation of our results in the framework of the duality between
the Heterotic string compactified on K3 \times T^2 and the Type II string
compactified on a Calabi-Yau threefold.Comment: 26 pages, 8 table
A classifying algebra for boundary conditions
We introduce a finite-dimensional algebra that controls the possible boundary
conditions of a conformal field theory. For theories that are obtained by
modding out a Z_2 symmetry (corresponding to a so-called D_odd-type, or
half-integer spin simple current, modular invariant), this classifying algebra
contains the fusion algebra of the untwisted sector as a subalgebra. Proper
treatment of fields in the twisted sector, so-called fixed points, leads to
structures that are intriguingly close to the ones implied by modular
invariance for conformal field theories on closed orientable surfaces.Comment: 12 pages, LaTe
Non-tachyonic open descendants of the 0B string theory
We use the crosscap constraint to construct open descendants of the 0B string
compactified on and on free of tachyons both in the closed
and in the open unoriented sectors. In four dimensions the construction results
in a Chan-Paton gauge group with three
generations of chiral fermions in the representations
.Comment: 13 pages, Latex. Minor corrections. Final version to appear on
Phys.Lett.
Open Strings and Electric Fields in Compact Spaces
We analyse open strings with background electric fields in the internal
space, T-dual to branes moving with constant velocities in the internal space.
We find that the direction of the electric fields inside a two torus, dual to
the D brane velocities, has to be quantised such that the corresponding
direction is compact. This implies that D-brane motion in the internal torus is
periodic, with a periodicity that can be parametrically large in terms of the
internal radii. By S-duality, this is mapped into an internal magnetic field in
a three torus, a quantum mechanical analysis of which yields a similar result,
i.e. the parallel direction to the magnetic field has to be compact.
Furthermore, for the magnetic case, we find the Landau level degeneracy as
being given by the greatest common divisor of the flux numbers. We carry on the
string quantisation and derive the relevant partition functions for these
models. Our analysis includes also the case of oblique electric fields which
can arise when several stacks of branes are present. Compact dimensions and/or
oblique sectors influence the energy loss of the system through pair-creation
and thus can be relevant for inflationary scenarios with branes. Finally, we
show that the compact energy loss is always larger than the non-compact one.Comment: 44 pages, 4 figures; v2 corrections in section 8, one reference adde
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