IIB soliton spectra with all fluxes activated Original Research Article

Building upon an earlier proposal for the classification of fluxes, a sequence is proposed which generalizes the AHSS by computing type IIB string theoryʹs group of conserved RR and also NS charges, which is conjectured to be a K-theory of dual pairs. As a test of this proposal, the formalism of Maldacena, Moore and Seiberg () is applied to classify D-branes, NS5-branes, F-strings and their dielectric counterparts in IIB compactified on a 3-sphere with both NS and RR background fluxes. The soliton spectra on the 3-sphere are then compared with the output of the sequence, as is the baryon spectrum in Wittenʹs non-spinc example, AdS5×RP5. The group of conserved charges is seen to change during Brown–Teitelboim-like phase transitions which change the effective cosmological constant.