Pith. sign in

REVIEW 9 cited by

Why are fractional charges of orientifolds compatible with Dirac quantization?

Not yet reviewed by Pith; the record is open.

This paper has not been read by Pith yet. Machine review is queued; the pith claim, tier, and objections will appear here once it completes.

SPECIMEN: schema-true, not a live event

T0 review · schema-true

One-sentence machine reading of the paper's core claim.

pith:XXXXXXXX · record.json · timestamp

arxiv 1805.02772 v2 pith:YDPJWXLE submitted 2018-05-07 hep-th

classification hep-th
keywords chargesdiracfractionalpointquantizationaccountanomalyappear
verification ladder T0 review T1 audit T2 compute T3 formal

Signed reviews

No signed human review yet.

0 comments
abstract

Orientifold $p$-planes with $p\le4$ have fractional D$p$-charges, and therefore appear inconsistent with Dirac quantization with respect to D$(6-p)$-branes. We explain in detail how this issue is resolved by taking into account the anomaly of the worldvolume fermions using the $\eta$ invariants. We also point out relationships to the classification of interacting fermionic symmetry protected topological phases. In an appendix, we point out that the duality group of type IIB string theory is the pin+ version of the double cover of $GL(2,\mathbb{Z})$.

Discussion (0). Continue with ORCID to comment.

Forward citations

Cited by 9 Pith papers

Reviewed papers in the Pith corpus that reference this work. Sorted by Pith novelty score. Full citation record

  1. The AdS/$\mathsf{C}$-$\mathsf{P}$-${\mathsf T}$ Correspondence

    hep-th 2025-07 conditional novelty 8.0 of 10

    N=4 super Yang-Mills has P and T symmetries that mix with CP and CT under S-duality, and these map to specific worldsheet and geometric symmetries of Type IIB string theory.

  2. New Type IIB Poly-instanton Effects and Axion Quintessence

    hep-th 2026-07 conditional novelty 7.0 of 10

    Deformation divisors can generate poly-instanton superpotential terms in type IIB Calabi-Yau orientifolds when O3-planes lie on the E3-brane, with explicit CY examples and an axion-quintessence construction matching t...

  3. Cobordism Utopia: U-Dualities, Bordisms, and the Swampland

    hep-th 2025-05 conditional novelty 7.0 of 10

    For 8d maximal supergravity, the spin bordism groups Omega_k^Spin(B(SL(2,Z) x SL(3,Z))) for k=1..7 are computed and each generator is realized by a string/M/F-theory background, some of which are non-geometric.

  4. Localization and wall-crossing of giant graviton expansions in AdS$_5$

    hep-th 2025-01 conditional novelty 7.0 of 10

    The 1/2-BPS giant graviton expansions for U(N), SO(2k+1), Sp(k), and SO(2k) N=4 SYM are derived from supersymmetric localization of D3-branes in AdS5, with the analytic continuation explained as wall-crossing in a Lan...

  5. Quantum corrections to DGKT and the Weak Gravity Conjecture

    hep-th 2024-11 conditional novelty 7.0 of 10

    Quantum corrections from gaugino condensation and D2 instantons lift the DGKT D4-brane moduli space, making the branes self-attractive and putting the vacuum in tension with the membrane WGC.

  6. GSO projections via SPT phases

    hep-th 2019-08 conditional novelty 7.0 of 10

    GSO projections in string theory are classified by fermionic SPT phases, predicting unoriented type 0 strings labeled by n mod 8 and explaining type II and type I choices.

  7. Gravitational Background of Alice-Vortices and R7-Branes

    hep-th 2026-02 conditional novelty 6.0 of 10

    A family of asymptotic Alice-vortex/R7-brane backgrounds in axio-dilaton gravity is constructed, with the vortex tension encoded in a conical deficit and a generic intrinsic dipole moment.

  8. Anomaly-induced vanishing of brane partition functions

    hep-th 2025-10 conditional novelty 6.0 of 10

    Anomalies imply vanishing brane partition functions; this yields unified derivations of the Freed-Witten and M5 shifted-quantization conditions and new S-fold D3-brane constraints.

  9. Finiteness and the Emergence of Dualities

    hep-th 2024-12 conditional novelty 6.0 of 10

    Finiteness of quantum gravity amplitudes implies moduli spaces have at most Euclidean volume growth, which in turn implies duality groups act semisimply on charge lattices.

Pith tools