Differential K-characters and D-branes
High Energy Physics - Theory
2016-03-18 v1 Mathematical Physics
math.MP
Abstract
Starting from the definition of Cheeger-Simons K-character, we show how to describe D-brane world-volumes, the Wess-Zumino action and topological D-brane charges within the K-theoretical framework in type II superstring theory. We stress in particular how each feature of the old cohomological classification can be reproduced using the K-theoretical language.
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Cite
@article{arxiv.1603.05323,
title = {Differential K-characters and D-branes},
author = {Fabio Ferrari Ruffino},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1603.05323},
year = {2016}
}
Comments
15 pages in Proceedings of String-Math 2014, in Proceedings of Symposia in Pure Mathematics, Volume 93, 2016