T-duality of D-brane boundary conditions ($N\leftrightarrow D$)

For a compact string embedding map coordinate, T-duality preserves its left-moving part and reverses its right-moving part. Consequently ${\partial }_{\tau }\tilde{X}={\partial }_{\sigma }X$ and ${\partial }_{\sigma }\tilde{X}={\partial }_{\tau }X$. A Neumann boundary condition becomes a Dirichlet boundary condition and conversely. A D-brane wrapping the circle loses one spatial worldvolume dimension; a D-brane transverse to it gains one in the dual description.

Under T-duality, the positions $y_i$ of D-branes transverse to a circle of radius $R$ become diagonal Wilson lines on branes wrapping the dual circle $R^{\prime }={\alpha }^{\prime }/R$. Their holonomies are $\exp (i2\pi R^{\prime }{A}_i)=\exp (i{y}_i/R)$. An Open string stretched between D-branes with displacement $y_j-y_i+2\pi Rw$ becomes a string with shifted compact momentum $w/R^{\prime }+A_j-A_i$. The stretching contribution and the shifted-momentum contribution to its squared mass are identical.