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Branes and Fluxes in Orientifolds and K-theory

Hugo Garcia-Compean, Oscar Loaiza-Brito

hep-tharXiv:hep-th/0206183

Abstract

RR fields in string backgrounds including orientifold planes and branes on top of them are classified by K-theory. Following the idea introduced in hep-th/0103183, we also classify such fluxes by cohomology. Both of them are compared through the Atiyah-Hirzebruch Spectral Sequence. Some new correlations between branes on orientifold planes Op and obstructions to the existence of some branes are found. Finally, we find a topological condition that avoid the presence of global gauge anomalies in lower dimensional systems.

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