A Note on the Equivalence of Vafa's and Douglas's Picture of Discrete Torsion
Abstract
For a general nonabelian group action and an arbitrary genus worldsheet we show that Vafa's old definition of discrete torsion coincides with Douglas's D-brane definition of discrete torsion associated to projective representations.
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