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Fractional branes in non-compact type IIA orientifolds

Jaydeep Majumder1, Subir Mukhopadhyay2 and Koushik Ray3

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We study fractional D-branes in the Type-IIA theory on a non-compact orientifold of the orbifold Bbb C3/Bbb Z3 in the boundary state formalism. We find that the fractional D0-branes of the orbifold theory become unstable due to the presence of a tachyon, while there is a stable D-instanton whose tachyon gets projected out. We propose that the D-instanton is obtained after tachyon condensation. We evidence this by calculating the Whitehead group of the Abelian category of objects corresponding to the boundary states as being isomorphic to Bbb Z2.

Keywords

Topological Strings

D-branes

 

E-print Number: hep-th/0602135

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PACS

11.25.Uv D branes

11.25.Sq Nonperturbative techniques; string field theory

Subjects

Particle physics and field theory

Dates

Issue 11 (November 2006)

Received 8 March 2006, accepted for publication 17 October 2006

Published 6 November 2006



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