T-Duality for Orientifolds and Twisted KR-Theory |
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Authors: | Charles Doran Stefan Méndez-Diez Jonathan Rosenberg |
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Affiliation: | 1. Department of Mathematical and Statistical Sciences, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, T6G 2G1, Canada 2. Department of Mathematics, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, 20742-4015, USA
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Abstract: | D-brane charges in orientifold string theories are classified by the KR-theory of Atiyah. However, this is assuming that all O-planes have the same sign. When there are O-planes of different signs, physics demands a “KR-theory with a sign choice” which up until now has not been studied by mathematicians (with the unique exception of Moutuou, who did not have a specific application in mind). We give a definition of this theory and compute it for orientifold theories compactified on S 1 and T 2. We also explain how and why additional “twisting” is implemented. We show that our results satisfy all possible T-duality relationships for orientifold string theories on elliptic curves, which will be studied further in subsequent work. |
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