Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Theory
Scientific paper
1995-11-30
Nucl.Phys. B463 (1996) 420-434
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Theory
22 pages
Scientific paper
10.1016/0550-3213(96)00026-0
In the presence of a D-brane a string theory develops a new subsector. We show that for curved D-branes the corresponding sector is a (partially twisted) topological field theory. We use this result to compute the degeneracy of 2-branes wrapped around $K3$ cycles as well as 3-branes wrapped around CY threefold vanishing 3-cycles. In both cases we find the degeneracy is in accord with expectation. The counting of BPS states of a gas of 0-branes in the presence of a 4-brane in $K3$ is considered and it is noted that the effective 0-brane charge is shifted by 1, due to a quantum correction. This is in accord with string duality and the fact that left-moving ground state energy of heterotic string starts at $-1$. We also show that all the three different topological twistings of four dimensional $N=4$ Yang-Mills theory do arise from curved three-branes embedded in different spaces (Calabi-Yau manifolds and manifolds with exceptional holonomy groups).
Bershadsky Maxim
Sadov Vladimir
Vafa Cumrun
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