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D-brane charges and K-homology
It is argued that D-brane charge takes values in K-homology. For smooth
manifolds with spin structure, this could explain why the phase factor
calculated with a D-brane state x in IIB theory appears in
Diaconescu, Moore and Witten's computation of the partition function of IIA
string theory.Comment: 5 pages, RevTe
Halpern-Huang directions in effective scalar field theory
Halpern and Huang recently showed that there are relevant directions in the
space of interactions at the Gaussian fixed point. I show that their result can
be derived from Polchinski's form of the Wilson renormalization group. The
derivation shows that the existence of these directions is independent of the
cutoff function used.Comment: 6 pages, plain Te
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