Holonomy on D-branes

Carey, Alan; Johnson, Stuart; Murray, Michael K

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Holonomy on D-branes

Date

2004

Authors

Carey, Alan

Johnson, Stuart

Murray, Michael K

Publisher

Elsevier

Abstract

This paper shows how to construct anomaly free world sheet actions in string theory with D-branes. Our method is to use Deligne cohomology and bundle gerbe theory to define geometric objects which are naturally associated to D-branes and connections on them. The holonomy of these connections can be used to cancel global anomalies in the world sheet action.