2003/06/30 by Keshav Dasgupta, Marina Shmakova · 1 citation
Mathematics · Physics and Astronomy · #Black Holes and Theoretical Physics #Brane cosmology #Homotopy and Cohomology in Algebraic Topology #Noncommutative and Quantum Gravity Theories #Physics #Theoretical physics #hep-th
paper · pdf · doi:10.1016/j.nuclphysb.2003.09.054
published as Nucl.Phys. B675 (2003) 205-240 · 44 pages, Harvmac, 12 .eps figures; v2: Some typos corrected and references added; More typos corrected, two footnotes added and references updated. Final version to appear in Nucl. Phys. B
arxiv created 2003/09/30 · openalex publication_date 2003/10/25 · arxiv updated 2010/04/05 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05
Novel theories appear on the world-volume of branes by orienting B fields along various directions of the branes. We review some of the earlier developments and explore many new examples of these theories. In particular, among other things, we study the pinning effect of branes near conifold like singularities and brane-antibrane theories with different fluxes on their world-volumes. We show that all these theories arise from different limits of an M-theory configuration with appropriately chosen G-fluxes. This gives us a way to study them from a unified framework in M-theory.