Can D-branes wrap nonrepresentable cycles?

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Evslin, Jarah
Sati, Hisham
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[1] Free Univ Brussels, Int Solvay Inst Phys Theor, B-1050 Brussels, Belgium
[2] Free Univ Brussels, Int Solvay Inst Math, B-1050 Brussels, Belgium
[3] Yale Univ, Dept Math, New Haven, CT 06520 USA
[4] Univ Adelaide, Dept Pure Math, Adelaide, SA 5005, Australia
[5] Erwim Schrodinger Int, Inst Math Phys, A-1090 Vienna, Austria
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JOURNAL OF HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS | 2006年 / 10期
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D-branes; differential and algebraic geometry;
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Sometimes a homology cycle of a nonsingular compactification manifold cannot be represented by a nonsingular submanifold. We want to know whether such nonrepresentable cycles can be wrapped by D-branes. A brane wrapping a representable cycle carries a K-theory charge if and only if its Freed-Witten anomaly vanishes. However some K-theory charges are only carried by branes that wrap nonrepresentable cycles. We provide two examples of Freed-Witten anomaly-free D6-branes wrapping nonrepresentable cycles in the presence of a trivial NS 3-form flux. The first occurs in type IIA string theory compactified on the Sp(2) group manifold and the second in IIA on a product of lens spaces. We find that the first D6-brane carries a K-theory charge while the second does not.
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