D-Branes and Physical States

Details D-Branes and Physical States D-Branes and Physical States

1996-07-15

arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9607113v1

Nucl.Phys. B483 (1997) 248-266

Physics

High Energy Physics

High Energy Physics - Theory

22 pages, harvmac, no figures

Scientific paper

10.1016/S0550-3213(96)00475-0

States obtained by projecting boundary states, associated with D-branes, to fixed mass-level and momentum generically define non-trivial cohomology classes. For on-shell states the cohomology is the standard one, but when the states are off-shell the relevant cohomology is defined using a BRST operator with ghost zero modes removed. The zero momentum cohomology falls naturally into multiplets of $SO(D-1,1)$. At the massless level, a simple set of D-brane configurations generates the full set of zero-momentum states of standard ghost number, including the discrete states. We give a general construction of off-shell cohomology classes, which exhibits a non-trivial interaction between left and right movers that is not seen in on-shell cohomology. This includes, at higher mass levels, states obtained from typical D-brane boundary states as well as states with more intricate ghost dependence.

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