Can D-Branes Wrap Nonrepresentable Cycles?
Abstract
Sometimes a homology cycle of a nonsingular compactification manifold cannot be represented by a nonsingular submanifold. We want to know whether such nonrepresentable cycles can be wrapped by D-branes. A brane wrapping a representable cycle carries a K-theory charge if and only if its Freed-Witten anomaly vanishes. However some K-theory charges are only carried by branes that wrap nonrepresentable cycles. We provide two examples of Freed-Witten anomaly-free D6-branes wrapping nonrepresentable cycles in the presence of a trivial NS 3-form flux. The first occurs in type IIA string theory compactified on the Sp(2) group manifold and the second in IIA on a product of lens spaces. We find that the first D6-brane carries a K-theory charge while the second does not.
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@article{arxiv.hep-th/0607045,
title = {Can D-Branes Wrap Nonrepresentable Cycles?},
author = {Jarah Evslin and Hisham Sati},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/0607045},
year = {2009}
}
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