Holonomy on D-branes

Alan L. Carey; Stuart Johnson; Michael K. Murray

doi:10.1016/j.geomphys.2004.02.008

Holonomy on D-branes

Alan L. Carey, Stuart Johnson, Michael K. Murray^*

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This paper shows how to construct anomaly free world sheet actions in string theory with D-branes. Our method is to use Deligne cohomology and bundle gerbe theory to define geometric objects which are naturally associated to D-branes and connections on them. The holonomy of these connections can be used to cancel global anomalies in the world sheet action.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	186-216
Number of pages	31
Journal	Journal of Geometry and Physics
Volume	52
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geomphys.2004.02.008
Publication status	Published - Oct 2004

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