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Type: | Thesis |
Title: | Effective actions and charges of D-branes in curved space-time / by P. Dawson. |
Author: | Dawson, Peter Dale |
Issue Date: | 2003 |
School/Discipline: | Dept. of Physics and Mathematical Physics |
Abstract: | This thesis firstly investigates K-invariant and supersymmetric actions of D-branes in curved space-time. Following this, research into charges of D-branes in a group manifold are studied. In particular, the charge groups are determined for the symmetry preserving (or untwisted) D-branes on a compact, simple, connected, simply connected group manifold. The purpose of this research is to determine these charge groups in order that they can be compared to the charge groups predicted by twisted K-theory for D-branes in a group manifold, thus providing a future important check to the theorem that D-brane charges are determined by twisted K-theory, one of the most important recent ideas in string theory. |
Dissertation Note: | Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Adelaide, Dept. of Physics and Mathematical Physics, 2003 |
Subject: | String models. D-branes. K-theory. |
Description: | Bibliography: leaves 181-190. 190 leaves : ill. ; 30 cm. |
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