Dirichlet Branes and Ramond-Ramond charges.

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Summary

It is shown that D-branes, extended objects defined by mixed Dirichlet-Neumann boundary conditions, break half the supersymmetries of the type II superstring and carry a complete set of electric and magnetic Ramond-Ramond charges.

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1995-10-05
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Physics, Superstring theory, Brane cosmology, String (physics), Mathematical physics

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