Taming open/closed string duality with a Losev trick
High Energy Physics - Theory
2014-11-20 v2 Mathematical Physics
math.MP
Abstract
A target space string field theory formulation for open and closed B-model is provided by giving a Batalin-Vilkovisky quantization of the holomorphic Chern-Simons theory with off-shell gravity background. The target space expression for the coefficients of the holomorphic anomaly equation for open strings are obtained. Furthermore, open/closed string duality is proved from a judicious integration over the open string fields. In particular, by restriction to the case of independence on continuous open moduli, the shift formulas of [7] are reproduced and shown therefore to encode the data of a closed string dual.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1003.2519,
title = {Taming open/closed string duality with a Losev trick},
author = {Giulio Bonelli and Andrea Prudenziati and Alessandro Tanzini},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1003.2519},
year = {2014}
}
Comments
22 pages, no figures; v.2 Refs. and a comment added.