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B-brane transport in nonabelian GLSMs for $K_{Gr(2,N)}$

High Energy Physics - Theory 2025-12-08 v2 Algebraic Geometry

Abstract

We study the properties of B-branes in a class of nonabelian GLSMs realizing the canonical line bundle KGr(2,N)K_{Gr(2,N)} in their geometric phase. By analysing the hemisphere partition function, i.e. B-brane central charge, we propose a grade restriction rule and the corresponding window categories for a specific class of paths between phases. We find very striking differences between the cases of N even and N odd. In particular, for the case of N even, we suggest that more than one window category can be possible, for a fixed path. A detailed computation of the open Witten index and some monodromies provides evidence for our proposal for window categories. In addition, we make some remarks about B-branes on the the strongly coupled phase, for the case N=4N=4, based on our window proposal.

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@article{arxiv.2503.06293,
  title  = {B-brane transport in nonabelian GLSMs for $K_{Gr(2,N)}$},
  author = {Jirui Guo and Mauricio Romo and Lucy Smith},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2503.06293},
  year   = {2025}
}

Comments

44 pages, LaTeX; v2: some typos corrected, a few clarifications added. Published version