Document Type
Article - postprint
Department
Physics (HMC)
Publication Date
10-2004
Abstract
In the Green-Schwarz formalism, the closed string worldsheet of the IIB theory couples to Ramond-Ramond (RR) fluxes through spinor bilinears. We study the effect of such fluxes by analyzing the supersymmetry transformation of the worldsheet in general backgrounds. We show that, in the presence RR fields, the closed string can get `polarized', as the spinors acquire non-zero vevs in directions correlating with the orientation of close-by D-branes. Reversing the argument, this may allow for worldsheet configurations—with non-trivial spinor structure—that source RR moments.
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DOI
10.1088/1126-6708/2004/10/021
Recommended Citation
Vatche Sahakian. "On the polarization of closed strings by Ramond-Ramond fluxes." JHEP 10 (2004) 021. doi: 10.1088/1126-6708/2004/10/021
Comments
Author's post-print is available for download. The published article can be found from the Institute of Physics at http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1126-6708/2004/10/021.