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Strings on Orbifold Lines

Oren Bergman, Eric Gimon, Barak Kol

hep-tharXiv:hep-th/0102095

Abstract

The orbifold lines IIA/I8 and IIB/$I8 (-1)FL possess BPS discrete torsion variants which carry fundamental string (NSNS) charge. We show that these variants are actually classified by an integral electric field F from the twisted RR sector, and compute their tension and NSNS charge as a function of F. The analysis employs equivariant K-theory and the string creation phenomenon. The K-theory results demonstrate the corrections to cohomology in the case of torsion; it is found that 8 units of F are invisible at transverse infinity for IIA, and correspondingly 16 units for IIB.

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