2004/05/31 by Vatche Sahakian · 1 citation
Physics and Astronomy · #Astrophysical Phenomena and Observations #Astrophysics and Cosmic Phenomena #Black Holes and Theoretical Physics #Polarization (electrochemistry) #Pure spinor #Spinor #String (physics) #String theory #Worldsheet #hep-th
paper · pdf · doi:10.1088/1126-6708/2004/10/021
published in Journal of High Energy Physics 2004(10), 021 (Springer Nature) · 18 pages
openalex publication_date 2004/10/09 · arxiv created 2006/03/19 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01 · openalex created_date 2016/06/24 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05
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.