D-branes in non-tachyonic 0B orientifolds

TL;DR

This paper classifies D-branes in the non-tachyonic 0'B orientifold, analyzes their anomalies, and explores compactifications, proposing a supergravity dual for a non-supersymmetric gauge theory.

Contribution

It provides a complete classification of D-branes in the 0'B orientifold, details their anomaly cancellation via Wess-Zumino terms, and investigates their role in various compactifications and dualities.

Findings

D-branes contain chiral fermions in various representations.

Anomaly cancellation requires explicit Wess-Zumino terms.

A supergravity dual for a non-supersymmetric gauge theory is conjectured.

Abstract

We determine all D-branes in the non-tachyonic 0'B orientifold, examine their world-volume anomalies and study orbifold compactifications. We find that the spectrum of the D-branes contains chiral fermions in the symmetric, antisymmetric and fundamental representations of (unitary) gauge groups on the branes. The cancellation of the world-volume anomalies requires Wess-Zumino terms which we determine explicitly. We examine a non-tachyonic compactification to 9D whose closed part interpolates between 0B and IIB and revisit compactifications on orbifolds. The D3-brane allows to conjecture, via the AdS/CFT correspondence, a supergravity dual to a non-supersymmetric and infrared-free gauge theory. The D-string gives hints concerning the S-dual of the 0'B orientifold.