Gepner-like boundary states on $T^4$
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 worldsheet sigma model on the 4-tori in terms of minimal models. Imposing general permutation gluing conditions on the 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 D-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