Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Theory
Scientific paper
1998-08-09
Nucl.Phys. B544 (1999) 265-286
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Theory
24 pages, revtex, minor misprints corrected, a clarifying remark added (to appear in Nucl. Phys. B)
Scientific paper
10.1016/S0550-3213(98)00840-2
We consider D-branes and orientifold planes embedded in non-compact (orbifolded) space-time. We point out that even in the non-compact cases we can turn on non-zero (quantized) NS-NS antisymmetric B-field. In particular, we study the effect of the B-field on four dimensional large N gauge theories from orientifolds. Thus, in theories with both D3- and D7-branes, the effect of the B-field is non-trivial: the number of D7-branes (of each species) is reduced from 8 (which is the required number if the B-field is trivial) to 4. This results in a different orientifold string theory, and, subsequently, the corresponding large N gauge theory is also different. We explicitly construct large N gauge theories from orientifolds with non-zero B-field backgrounds with ${\cal N}=2,1,0$ supersymmetries. These theories, just as their counterparts without the B-field, have the property that in the large N limit computation of any M-point correlation function reduces to the corresponding computation in the parent ${\cal N}=4$ supersymmetric theory with a unitary gauge group.
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