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Obstructions and lines of marginal stability from the world-sheet

High Energy Physics - Theory 2010-01-15 v1

Abstract

The behaviour of supersymmetric D-branes under deformations of the closed string background is studied using world-sheet methods. We explain how lines of marginal stability and obstructions arise from this point of view. We also show why N=2 B-type branes may be obstructed against (cc) perturbations, but why such obstructions do not occur for N=4 superconformal branes at c=6, i.e. for half-supersymmetric D-branes on K3. Our analysis is based on a field theory approach in superspace, as well as on techniques from perturbed conformal field theory.

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@article{arxiv.0902.3177,
  title  = {Obstructions and lines of marginal stability from the world-sheet},
  author = {Ilka Brunner and Matthias R. Gaberdiel and Stefan Hohenegger and Christoph A. Keller},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0902.3177},
  year   = {2010}
}

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32 pages