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arxiv: hep-th/0602025 · v2 · submitted 2006-02-02 · ✦ hep-th

D-branes in Nongeometric Backgrounds

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keywords backgroundsbased-branefibrationsformalismalphaalwaysapproximate
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"T-fold" backgrounds are generically-nongeometric compactifications of string theory, described by T^n fibrations over a base N with transition functions in the perturbative T-duality group. We review Hull's doubled torus formalism, which geometrizes these backgrounds, and use the formalism to constrain the D-brane spectrum (to leading order in g_s and alpha') on T^n fibrations over S^1 with O(n,n;Z) monodromy. We also discuss the (approximate) moduli space of such branes and argue that it is always geometric. For a D-brane located at a point on the base N, the classical ``D-geometry'' is a T^n fibration over a multiple cover of N.

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