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Gepner-like boundary states on $T^4$

High Energy Physics - Theory 2019-03-05 v1

Abstract

We present exact expressions for elementary boundary states which describe D-branes preserving 16 or fewer supercharges in type II superstring compactified on certain self-dual 4-tori. While being manifestly superconformal, our boundary states are not a priori required to satisfy the usual free-field gluing conditions along the internal directions of the 4-tori. Our calculations proceed along the lines of Gepner's construction by recasting the N=(2,2)\mathcal{N}=(2,2) worldsheet sigma model on the 4-tori in terms of N=2\mathcal{N}=2 minimal models. Imposing general permutation gluing conditions on the N=(2,2)\mathcal{N}=(2,2) generators is shown to yield various stable and unstable D-branes, where the stable ones include the known 1/2-BPS and 1/4-BPS bound states of Dpp-branes, as well as new non-BPS D-branes, which do not carry RR charges.

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@article{arxiv.1903.00487,
  title  = {Gepner-like boundary states on $T^4$},
  author = {M. Schnabl and J. Vosmera},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1903.00487},
  year   = {2019}
}

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44 pages, 1 figure

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