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D-branes in a plane wave from covariant open strings
Pascal Bain, Kasper Peeters, Marija Zamaklar
We derive boundary conditions for the covariant open string corresponding to D-branes in an Hpp-wave, by requiring kappa symmetry of its bulk action. Both half-supersymmetric and q…
Instanton corrections to the effective action of the CHL string and its type I dual
P. Bain
In this letter, we investigate corrections to quartic gauge couplings in compactifications of string theories on a 2-torus without vector structure. First, we calculate the thresho…
Fractional D3-branes in diverse backgrounds
P. Bain
In the first part of this article, we find fractional D3-branes supergravity solutions on orientifolded C^2/Z_2 orbifolds of type IIB string theory. The one-loop corrected gauge co…
Taming the supergravity description of non-BPS D-branes: the D/Dbar solution
P. Bain
We obtain the supergravity solution which describes a bound state of D-string/anti-D-string pairs attached to different fixed planes of an orbifold, in type IIB string theory compa…
Effective Action of Matter Fields in Four-Dimensional String Orientifolds
P. Bain, M. Berg
We study various aspects of the Kahler metric for matter fields in N=1,2 orientifold compactifications of type IIB string theory. The result has an infrared-divergent part which re…
On the non-abelian Born-Infeld action
P. Bain
We discuss some aspects of the generalization of the Born-Infeld action to non-abelian gauge groups and show how the discrepancy between Tseytlin's symmetrized trace proposal and s…