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D-branes and nonlinear interactions in the $AdS$ pure spinor string

High Energy Physics - Theory 2026-07-28 v1

Abstract

We develop a coordinate-independent algebraic description of zero-field boundary conditions for the pure spinor string on AdS5×S5AdS_5\times S^5 in the closed-string channel. The construction is organized by involutive automorphisms of psu(2,24)\mathfrak{psu}(2,2|4) that exchange the odd sectors of the Z4\mathbb Z_4 grading. Their fixed subalgebras provide candidate half-BPS, Lorentzian D-brane geometries with vanishing background world-volume flux, consistent with the standard AdS2AdS_2, AdS3×S1AdS_3\times S^1, AdS4×S2AdS_4\times S^2, and related embeddings. Together, the seven representatives realize the Lorentzian zero-flux D1, D3, D5, and D7 probe sectors considered here. We then construct a local ansatz for the matter and ghost boundary interactions and derive a system of consistency equations for the tangential superconnection, transverse embedding, and four ghost-gluing couplings. The resulting system is a set of Dirac-Born-Infeld-like equations of motion on the brane world-volume.

Cite

@article{arxiv.2607.26343,
  title  = {D-branes and nonlinear interactions in the $AdS$ pure spinor string},
  author = {Brenno Carlini Vallilo},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2607.26343},
  year   = {2026}
}

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39 pages, 1 figure