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WZ Couplings of D-Branes and Oplanes

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In this short note we review the construction and role of Wess-Zumino couplings of Dirichlet branes and Orientifold planes, and show how these combine to give the Green-Schwarz anomaly cancelling terms.

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  1. Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, Cambridge University, Silver Street, Cambridge, CB3 9EW, UK

    B. Stefański Jr.

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  1. CNRS and Université Pierre & Marie Curie (Paris VI), Paris, France

    Laurent Baulieu  & Marco Picco  & 

  2. DAMTP, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, Great Britain

    Michael Green

  3. Université Pierre & Marie Curie (Paris VI), Paris, France

    Paul Windey

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Stefański, B. (2001). WZ Couplings of D-Branes and Oplanes. In: Baulieu, L., Green, M., Picco, M., Windey, P. (eds) Progress in String Theory and M-Theory. NATO Science Series, vol 564. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-0852-5_31

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