Dirichlet Branes and Ramond-Ramond charges
Journal Article
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· Physical Review Letters
- Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of California, Santa Barbara, California 93106-4030 (United States)
We show that D-branes, extended objects defined by mixed Dirichlet-Neumann boundary conditions, break half the supersymmetries of the type II superstring and carry a complete set of electric and magnetic Ramond-Ramond charges. The product of the electric and magnetic charges is a single Dirac unit, and the quantum of charge is that required by string duality. This is strong evidence that D-branes are intrinsic to type II string theory and are the Ramond-Ramond sources needed for string duality. Also, we find in the IIa string a 9-form potential, which gives an effective cosmological constant. {copyright} {ital 1995 The American Physical Society.}
- OSTI ID:
- 277365
- Journal Information:
- Physical Review Letters, Vol. 75, Issue 26; Other Information: PBD: Dec 1995
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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