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A note on singular D-branes in group manifolds

High Energy Physics - Theory 2010-04-05 v3

Abstract

After reviewing D-branes as conjugacy classes and various charge quantizations (modulo kk) in WZW model, we develop the classification and systematic construction of all possible untwisted D-branes in Lie groups of A-D-E series. D-branes are classified according to their positions in the maximal torus. The moduli space of D-branes is naturally identified with a unit cell in the weight space which is exponentiated to be the maximal torus. However, for the D-brane classification, one may consider only the fundamental Weyl domain that is surrounded by the hyperplanes defined by Weyl reflections. We construct all the D-branes by the method of iterative deletion in the Dynkin diagram. The dimension of a D-brane always becomes an even number and it reduces as we go from a generic point of the fundamental domain to its higher co-dimensional boundaries. Quantum mechanical stability requires that only D-branes at discrete positions are allowed.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/0206238,
  title  = {A note on singular D-branes in group manifolds},
  author = {Taichi Itoh and Sang-Jin Sin},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/0206238},
  year   = {2010}
}

Comments

28 pages,6 figures. v3:Typo corrected, reference added

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