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arxiv: 1009.4657 · v2 · pith:3XCH7Y6Snew · submitted 2010-09-23 · ✦ hep-th

D-Brane Wess-Zumino Terms and U-Duality

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keywords chargestermswess-zuminobranedimensionsexpressionsgeneralhigher-dimensional
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We construct gauge-invariant and U-duality covariant expressions for Wess-Zumino terms corresponding to general Dp-branes (for any p<D) in arbitrary 2<D<11 dimensions. A distinguishing feature of these Wess-Zumino terms is that they contain twice as many scalars as the 10-D compactified dimensions, in line with doubled geometry. We find that for D<10 the charges of the higher-dimensional branes can all be expressed as products of the 0-brane charges, which include the D0-brane and the NS-NS 0-brane charges. We give the general expressions for these charges and show how they determine the non-trivial conjugacy class to which some of the higher-dimensional D-branes belong.

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