Multiple "parallel" D-branes seen as leaves of foliations and Duminy's theorem

Details Multiple "parallel" D-branes seen as leaves of foliations and Duminy's theorem Multiple "parallel" D-branes seen as leaves of foliations and Duminy's theorem

2000-11-25

arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0011228v1

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High Energy Physics

High Energy Physics - Theory

39 pages, TeX

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We try to give a qualitative description of the Godbillon-Vey class and its relation on the one hand to the holonomy and on the other hand to the topological entropy of a foliation, using a remarkable theorem proved recently by G. Duminy (which still remains unpublished), relating these three notions in the case of codim-1 foliations. Moreover we shall investigate its possible consequences on string theory. In particular we shall present a conceptual argument according to which the curvature of the B-field (rank two antisymmetric tensor) of open strings might be related to the Godbillon-Vey class using a suitable generalisation of ``Non-Abelian Geometry'' which has just appeared in physics literature. Our starting point again is the Connes-Douglas-Schwarz article on compactifications of matrix models to noncommutative tori.

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