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Dirichlet branes, homological mirror symmetry, and stability

Algebraic Geometry 2021-03-22 v2 High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

We discuss some mathematical conjectures which have come out of the Dirichlet branes in superstring theory, focusing on the case of supersymmetric branes in Calabi-Yau compactification. This has led to the formulation of a notion of stability for objects in a derived category, contact with Kontsevich's homological mirror symmetry conjecture, and "physics proofs" for many of the subsequent conjectures based on it, such as the representation of Calabi-Yau monodromy by autoequivalences of the derived category.

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@article{arxiv.math/0207021,
  title  = {Dirichlet branes, homological mirror symmetry, and stability},
  author = {Michael R. Douglas},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:math/0207021},
  year   = {2021}
}

Comments

15 pp., amstex using special .sty (included). To appear in the 2002 ICM proceedings