D-brane charges and K-homology
Abstract
It is argued that D-brane charge takes values in K-homology. For smooth manifolds with spin structure, this could explain why the phase factor (x) calculated with a D-brane state x in IIB theory appears in Diaconescu, Moore and Witten's computation of the partition function of IIA string theory.
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