Published March 2006 | Version v1
Journal article

On D-brane boundary state analysis in pure spinor formalism

  • 1. Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY-40506 (United States)

Description

We explore a particular approach to study D-brane boundary states in Berkovits' pure spinor formalism of superstring theories. In this approach one constructs the boundary states in the relevant conformal field theory by relaxing the pure spinor constraints. This enables us to write down the open string boundary conditions for non-BPS D-branes in type II string theories, generalizing our previous work in light-cone Green-Schwarz formalism. As a first step to explore how to apply these boundary states for physical computations we prescribe rules for computing disk one point functions for the supergravity modes. We also comment on the force computation between two D-branes and point out that it is hard to make the world-sheet open-closed duality manifest in this computation

Availability note (English)

Available online at http://stacks.iop.org/1126-6708/2006/i=03/a=066/jhep032006066.pdf or at the Web site for the Journal of High Energy Physics (ISSN 1029-8479) http://www.iop.org/

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Publishing Information

Journal Title
Journal of High Energy Physics
Journal Volume
2006
Journal Issue
03
Journal Page Range
p. 066
ISSN
1126-6708