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TOPOLOGICAL QUANTUM D-BRANES AND WILD EMBEDDINGS FROM EXOTIC SMOOTH ℝ4

    https://doi.org/10.1142/S0217751X11053857Cited by:10 (Source: Crossref)

    This is the next step of uncovering the relation between string theory and exotic smooth ℝ4. Exotic smoothness of ℝ4 is correlated with D6-brane charges in IIA string theory. We construct wild embeddings of spheres and relate them to a class of topological quantum Dp-branes as well to KK theory. These branes emerge when there are nontrivial NS–NS H-fluxes on S3 where the topological classes are determined by wild embeddings S2→S3. Then wild embeddings of higher dimensional p-complexes into Sn correspond to Dp-branes. These wild embeddings as constructed by using gropes are basic objects to understand exotic smoothness as well Casson handles. Next we build C-algebras corresponding to the embeddings. Finally we consider topological quantum D-branes as those which emerge from wild embeddings in question. We construct an action for these quantum D-branes and show that the classical limit agrees with the Born–Infeld action such that flat branes = usual embeddings.

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