nLab Eric Gimon

Selected writings

On orientifolds, O-planes and RR-field tadpole cancellation:

• Eric Gimon, Joseph Polchinski, Consistency Conditions for Orientifolds and D-Manifolds, Phys.Rev.D54:1667-1676, 1996 (arXiv:hep-th/9601038)

  (specifically for D5-D9 brane bound states dual to small instantons in heterotic string theory)

• Eric Gimon, Clifford Johnson, K3 Orientifolds, Nucl. Phys. B477: 715-745, 1996 (arXiv:hep-th/9604129)

• Oren Bergman, Eric Gimon, Shigeki Sugimoto, Orientifolds, RR Torsion, and K-theory, JHEP 0105:047, 2001 (arXiv:hep-th/0103183)

and their lift to M-theory (MO5, MO9):

• Eric Gimon, On the M-theory Interpretation of Orientifold Planes (arXiv:hep-th/9806226, spire:472499)

Understanding solitonic (non-singular) D-branes and their T-duality in terms of the D-brane charge quantization in K-theory:

• Oren Bergman, Eric G. Gimon, Petr Hořava, Brane Transfer Operations and T-Duality of Non-BPS States, JHEP 9904 (1999) 010 [doi:10.1088/1126-6708/1999/04/010, arXiv:hep-th/9902160]

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