D-branes and the Noncommutative Torus
High Energy Physics - Theory
2010-02-03 v3
Abstract
We show that in certain superstring compactifications, gauge theories on noncommutative tori will naturally appear as D-brane world-volume theories. This gives strong evidence that they are well-defined quantum theories. It also gives a physical derivation of the identification proposed by Connes, Douglas and Schwarz of Matrix theory compactification on the noncommutative torus with M theory compactification with constant background three-form tensor field.
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@article{arxiv.hep-th/9711165,
title = {D-branes and the Noncommutative Torus},
author = {Michael R. Douglas and Chris Hull},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/9711165},
year = {2010}
}
Comments
harvmac, 5 pp. Minor error fixed