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D-Branes and Spinc Structures

Robert L. Bryant, Eric R. Sharpe

hep-tharXiv:hep-th/9812084

Abstract

It was recently pointed out by E. Witten that for a D-brane to consistently wrap a submanifold of some manifold, the normal bundle must admit a Spinc structure. We examine this constraint in the case of type II string compactifications with vanishing cosmological constant, and argue that in all such cases, the normal bundle to a supersymmetric cycle is automatically Spinc.

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