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Anomalous D-brane and orientifold couplings from the boundary state

High Energy Physics - Theory 2009-10-31 v3

Abstract

We compute scattering amplitudes involving both R-R and NS-NS fields in the presence of a D-brane or orientifold plane. These provide direct evidence for the anomalous couplings in the D-brane and orientifold actions. The D9-brane and O9-plane are found to couple to the first Pontrjagin class with the expected relative strength.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/9808074,
  title  = {Anomalous D-brane and orientifold couplings from the boundary state},
  author = {Ben Craps and Frederik Roose},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/9808074},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

13 pages, latex, no figures, proposal to fix factor of 2 added, minor corrections, reference added, version to be published in Phys. Lett. B