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D-branes and Spin^c-structures

Publication ,  Journal Article
Sharpe, E; Bryant, RL
Published in: Physics Letters, Section B: Nuclear, Elementary Particle and High-Energy Physics
1999

It was recently pointed out by E. Witten that for a D-brane to consistently wrap a submanifold of some manifold, the normal bundle must admit a Spin^c structure. We examine this constraint in the case of type II string compactifications with vanishing cosmological constant and argue that, in all such cases, the normal bundle to a sypersymmetric cycle is automatically Spin^c.

Duke Scholars

Published In

Physics Letters, Section B: Nuclear, Elementary Particle and High-Energy Physics

Publication Date

1999

Volume

450

Issue

4

Start / End Page

353 / 357

Related Subject Headings

  • Nuclear & Particles Physics
  • 51 Physical sciences
  • 49 Mathematical sciences
  • 0202 Atomic, Molecular, Nuclear, Particle and Plasma Physics
  • 0201 Astronomical and Space Sciences
  • 0105 Mathematical Physics
 

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Sharpe, E., & Bryant, R. L. (1999). D-branes and Spin^c-structures. Physics Letters, Section B: Nuclear, Elementary Particle and High-Energy Physics, 450(4), 353–357.
Sharpe, E., and R. L. Bryant. “D-branes and Spin^c-structures.” Physics Letters, Section B: Nuclear, Elementary Particle and High-Energy Physics 450, no. 4 (1999): 353–57.
Sharpe E, Bryant RL. D-branes and Spin^c-structures. Physics Letters, Section B: Nuclear, Elementary Particle and High-Energy Physics. 1999;450(4):353–7.
Sharpe, E., and R. L. Bryant. “D-branes and Spin^c-structures.” Physics Letters, Section B: Nuclear, Elementary Particle and High-Energy Physics, vol. 450, no. 4, 1999, pp. 353–57.
Sharpe E, Bryant RL. D-branes and Spin^c-structures. Physics Letters, Section B: Nuclear, Elementary Particle and High-Energy Physics. 1999;450(4):353–357.

Published In

Physics Letters, Section B: Nuclear, Elementary Particle and High-Energy Physics

Publication Date

1999

Volume

450

Issue

4

Start / End Page

353 / 357

Related Subject Headings

  • Nuclear & Particles Physics
  • 51 Physical sciences
  • 49 Mathematical sciences
  • 0202 Atomic, Molecular, Nuclear, Particle and Plasma Physics
  • 0201 Astronomical and Space Sciences
  • 0105 Mathematical Physics