K-theoretic Aspects of String Theory Dualities

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dc.contributor.advisorRosenberg, Jonathan M.en_US
dc.contributor.authorMendez-Diez, Stefan Miloen_US
dc.contributor.departmentApplied Mathematics and Scientific Computationen_US
dc.contributor.publisherDigital Repository at the University of Marylanden_US
dc.contributor.publisherUniversity of Maryland (College Park, Md.)en_US
dc.date.accessioned2010-10-07T05:33:21Z
dc.date.available2010-10-07T05:33:21Z
dc.date.issued2010en_US
dc.description.abstract<p> String theory is a a physical field theory in which point particles are replaced by 1-manifolds propagating in time, called strings. The 2-manifold representing the time evolution of a string is called the string worldsheet. Strings can be either closed (meaning their worldsheets are closed surfaces) or open (meaning their worldsheets have boundary). A D-brane is a submanifold of the spacetime manifold on which string endpoints are constrained to lie. <p> There are five different string theories that have supersymmetry, and they are all related by various dualities. This dissertation will review how D-branes are classified by K-theory. We will then explore the $K$-theoretic aspects of a hypothesized duality between the type I theory compactified on a 4-torus and the type IIA theory compactified on a K3 surface, by looking at a certain blow down of the singular limit of K3. This dissertation concludes by classifying D-branes on the type II orientifold <bold>T</bold><sup>4</sup>/<bold>Z</bold><sub>2</sub> when the <bold>Z</bold><sub>2</sub> action is multiplication by -1 and the H-flux is trivial. We find that classifying D-branes on the singular limit of K3, <bold>T</bold><sup>4</sup>/<bold>Z</bold><sub>2</sub> by equivariant K-theory agrees with the classification of D-branes on a smooth K3 surface by ordinary K-theory.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1903/10769
dc.subject.pqcontrolledMathematicsen_US
dc.subject.pqcontrolledQuantum physicsen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledD-braneen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolleddualityen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledHEPen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledK-theoryen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledstring theoryen_US
dc.titleK-theoretic Aspects of String Theory Dualitiesen_US
dc.typeDissertationen_US

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