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Brane wrapping, AKSZ sigma models, and QP manifolds

High Energy Physics - Theory 2023-01-25 v2 Mathematical Physics math.MP Quantum Algebra Symplectic Geometry

Abstract

We introduce a technique to realise brane wrapping and double dimensional reduction in the context of AKSZ topological sigma models and also in their target spaces, which are symplectic LnL_n-algebroids (i.e. QP-manifolds). Our procedure involves a novel coisotropic reduction combined with an AKSZ transgression that realises degree-shifting; the reduced QP-manifold depends on topological data of the `wrapped' cycle. We check our procedure against the known rules for fluxes under wrapping in the context of M-theory/type IIA duality, and we also find a new relation between Courant algebroids and Poisson manifolds.

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@article{arxiv.2301.02670,
  title  = {Brane wrapping, AKSZ sigma models, and QP manifolds},
  author = {Alex S. Arvanitakis and David Tennyson},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2301.02670},
  year   = {2023}
}

Comments

39 pages, 1 figure. v2: added references & acknowledgements