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D-branes in $\lambda$-deformations

High Energy Physics - Theory 2018-09-26 v1 Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems

Abstract

We show that the geometric interpretation of D-branes in WZW models as twisted conjugacy classes persists in the λ\lambda--deformed theory. We obtain such configurations by demanding that a monodromy matrix constructed from the Lax connection of the λ\lambda--deformed theory continues to produce conserved charges in the presence of boundaries. In this way the D-brane configurations obtained correspond to `integrable' boundary configurations. We illustrate this with examples based on SU(2)SU(2) and SL(2,R)SL(2,\mathbb{R}), and comment on the relation of these D-branes to both non-Abelian T-duality and Poisson-Lie T-duality. We show that the D2 supported by D0 charge in the λ\lambda--deformed theory map, under analytic continuation together with Poisson-Lie T-duality, to D3 branes in the η\eta-deformation of the principal chiral model.

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@article{arxiv.1806.10712,
  title  = {D-branes in $\lambda$-deformations},
  author = {Sibylle Driezen and Alexander Sevrin and Daniel C. Thompson},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1806.10712},
  year   = {2018}
}

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41 pages

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