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Fractional Branes and Wrapped Branes
Duiliu-Emanuel Diaconescu, Michael R. Douglas, Jaume Gomis
We discuss the ``fractional D-branes'' which arise in orbifold resolution. We argue that they arise as subsectors of the Coulomb branch of the quiver gauge theory used to describe…
D-branes and the Noncommutative Torus
Michael R. Douglas, Chris Hull
We show that in certain superstring compactifications, gauge theories on noncommutative tori will naturally appear as D-brane world-volume theories. This gives strong evidence that…
Noncommutative Geometry and Matrix Theory: Compactification on Tori
Alain Connes, Michael R. Douglas, Albert Schwarz
We study toroidal compactification of Matrix theory, using ideas and results of non-commutative geometry. We generalize this to compactification on the noncommutative torus, explai…
Why Matrix Theory is Hard
Michael R. Douglas, Hirosi Ooguri
Recently Sen and Seiberg gave a prescription for constructing the matrix theory in any superstring background. We use their prescription to test the finite N matrix theory conjectu…
D-branes and Matrix Theory in Curved Space
Michael R. Douglas
We discuss the relation between supersymmetric gauge theory of branes and supergravity; as it was discovered in D-brane physics, and as it appears in Matrix theory, with emphasis o…
D-brane Actions on Kahler Manifolds
Michael R. Douglas, Akishi Kato, Hirosi Ooguri
We consider actions for N D-branes at points in a general Kahler manifold, which satisfy the axioms of D-geometry, and could be used as starting points for defining Matrix theory i…