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B-type defects in Landau-Ginzburg models

High Energy Physics - Theory 2009-04-30 v1

Abstract

We consider Landau-Ginzburg models with possibly different superpotentials glued together along one-dimensional defect lines. Defects preserving B-type supersymmetry can be represented by matrix factorisations of the difference of the superpotentials. The composition of these defects and their action on B-type boundary conditions is described in this framework. The cases of Landau-Ginzburg models with superpotential W=X^d and W=X^d+Z^2 are analysed in detail, and the results are compared to the CFT treatment of defects in N=2 superconformal minimal models to which these Landau-Ginzburg models flow in the IR.

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@article{arxiv.0707.0922,
  title  = {B-type defects in Landau-Ginzburg models},
  author = {Ilka Brunner and Daniel Roggenkamp},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0707.0922},
  year   = {2009}
}

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50 pages, 2 figures

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