# Transgression of D-branes

@article{Bunk2021TransgressionOD,
title={Transgression of D-branes},
journal={Advances in Theoretical and Mathematical Physics},
year={2021}
}
• Published 14 August 2018
• Mathematics
• Advances in Theoretical and Mathematical Physics
Closed strings can be seen either as one-dimensional objects in a target space or as points in the free loop space. Correspondingly, a B-field can be seen either as a connection on a gerbe over the target space, or as a connection on a line bundle over the loop space. Transgression establishes an equivalence between these two perspectives. Open strings require D-branes: submanifolds equipped with vector bundles twisted by the gerbe. In this paper we develop a loop space perspective on D-branes…
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