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Anomaly Cancelations in Orientifolds with Quantized B Flux

High Energy Physics - Theory 2009-10-31 v2 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

Abstract

We consider anomaly cancelations in Type IIB orientifolds on T^4/Z_N with quantized NS-NS sector background B-flux. For a rank b B-flux on T^4 (b is always even) and when N is even, the cancelation requires a 2^{b/2} multiplicity of states in the 59-open string sector. We identify the twisted sector R-R scalars and tensor multiplets which are involved in the Green-Schwarz mechanism. We give more details of the construction of these models and argue that consistency with the 2^{b/2} multiplicity of 59-sector states requires a modification of the relation between the open string 1-loop channel modulus and the closed string tree channel modulus in the 59-cylinder amplitudes.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/9907203,
  title  = {Anomaly Cancelations in Orientifolds with Quantized B Flux},
  author = {Alex Buchel and Gary Shiu and S. -H. Henry Tye},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/9907203},
  year   = {2009}
}

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Revtex 3.0, 34 pages, 2 figures, references added