Superconnections, anomalies and non-BPS brane charges

DOI10.1016/S0393-0440(02)00024-4zbMath1027.81027arXivhep-th/0108043MaRDI QIDQ697835

Richard J. Szabo

Publication date: 17 September 2002

Published in: Journal of Geometry and Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0108043

zbMATH Keywords

D-branesuperstring theorysuperconnection

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

String and superstring theories in gravitational theory (83E30) String and superstring theories; other extended objects (e.g., branes) in quantum field theory (81T30) Anomalies in quantum field theory (81T50) Applications of global differential geometry to the sciences (53C80) Spin and Spin({}^c) geometry (53C27) Eta-invariants, Chern-Simons invariants (58J28)

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Dimensional reduction of Seiberg-Witten monopole equations, N=2 noncommutative supersymmetric field theories and Young diagrams ⋮ D-BRANES, TACHYONS AND K-HOMOLOGY ⋮ Geometric K-homology of flat D-branes ⋮ Non-invertible symmetries, brane dynamics, and tachyon condensation ⋮ Quillen superconnections and connections on supermanifolds ⋮ KO-HOMOLOGY AND TYPE I STRING THEORY ⋮ Quiver gauge theory of non-Abelian vortices and noncommutative instantons in higher dimensions

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