Non-commutative/non-associative IIA (IIB) Q- and R-branes and their intersections

Mar 6, 2013
31 pages
Published in:
  • JHEP 07 (2013) 048
e-Print:
Report number:
  • LMU-ASC-11-13,
  • MPP-2013-52

Citations per year

20132016201920222023051015
Abstract: (Springer)
In this paper we discuss the construction of non-geometric Q- and R-branes as sources of non-geometric Q- and R-fluxes in string compactifications. The non-geometric Q-branes, being obtained via T-duality from the NS 5-brane or respectively from the KK-monopole, are still local solutions of the standard NS action, where however the background fields G and B possess non-geometric global monodromy properties. We show that using double field theory and redefined background fields and β as well as their corresponding effective action, the Q-branes are locally and globally well behaved solutions. Furthermore the R-brane solution can be at least formally constructed using dual coordinates. We derive the associated non-geometric Q- and R-fluxes and discuss that closed strings moving in the space transversal to the world-volumes of the non-geometric branes see a non-commutative or a non-associative geometry.
Note:
  • 31 pages, replaced version will be published in JHEP
  • string: compactification
  • group: SU(3) x SU(3)
  • string: closed
  • dimension: 4
  • dimension: 6
  • membrane model
  • noncommutative
  • background field
  • double field theory
  • effective action
Loading ...