Hopf reductions, fluxes and branes
High Energy Physics - Theory
2009-11-07 v4
Abstract
We use a series of reductions, T-dualities and liftings to construct connections between fractional brane solutions in IIA, IIB and M-theory. We find a number of phantom branes that are not supported by the geometry, however materialize upon untwisting and/or Hopf-reduction.
Cite
@article{arxiv.hep-th/0106266,
title = {Hopf reductions, fluxes and branes},
author = {Ruben Minasian and Dimitrios Tsimpis},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/0106266},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
22 pages, harvmac; minor corrections, note added; Section 4 corrected; Powers of string coupling fixed, topology of the solution in section 4.1 clarified, to appear in Nucl.Phys.B