D-Branes on Group Manifolds
Abstract
Possible Dirichlet boundary states for WZW models with untwisted affine super Kac-Moody symmetry are classified for all compact simple Lie groups. They are obtained by inner- and outer-automorphism of the group. D-brane world-volume turns out to be a group manifold of a symmetric subgroup, so that the moduli space of D-brane is a irreducible Riemannian symmetric space. It is also clarified how these D-branes are transformed to each other under abelian T-duality of WZW model. Our result implies, for example, there is no D-particle on the compact simple group manifold. When the D-brane world-volume contains factor, the D-brane moduli space becomes hermitian symmetric space and the open string world-sheet instantons are allowed.
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@article{arxiv.hep-th/9612148,
title = {D-Branes on Group Manifolds},
author = {Mitsuhiro Kato and Tomoharu Okada},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/9612148},
year = {2007}
}
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16 pages, LaTeX