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D-branes in the WZW model

High Energy Physics - Theory 2009-12-30 v2

Abstract

It is stated in the literature that D-branes in the WZW-model associated with the gluing condition J = - \bar{J} along the boundary correspond to branes filling out the whole group volume. We show instead that the end-points of open strings are rather bound to stay on `integer' conjugacy classes. In the case of SU(2) level k WZW model we obtain k-1 two dimensional Euclidean D-branes and two D particles sitting at the points e and -e.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/9812193,
  title  = {D-branes in the WZW model},
  author = {A. Yu. Alekseev and V. Schomerus},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/9812193},
  year   = {2009}
}

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