Boundary states in IIA plane wave background

Abstract

We work out boundary states for type IIA string theory on a plane wave background. By directly utilizing the channel duality, the induced conditions from the open string boundary conditions are imposed on the boundary states. The resulting boundary states correctly reproduce the partition functions of the open string theory for DpDp and DpD (p) over bar cases where Dp braves are half BPS brane if located at the origin of the plane wave background. (C) 2003 Published by Elsevier B.V.