Topological D-branes from Descent
High Energy Physics - Theory
2010-09-08 v5
Abstract
Witten couples the open topological B-model to a holomorphic vector bundle by adding to the boundary of the worldsheet a Wilson loop for an integrable connection on the bundle. Using the descent procedure for boundary vertex operators in this context, I generalize this construction to write a worldsheet coupling for a graded vector bundle with an integrable superconnection. I then compute the open string vertex operators between two such boundaries. A theorem of J. Block gives that this is equivalent to coupling the B-model to an arbitrary object in the derived category.
Cite
@article{arxiv.0808.0168,
title = {Topological D-branes from Descent},
author = {Aaron Bergman},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0808.0168},
year = {2010}
}
Comments
18+1 pages, uses utarticle.cls, v5: added discussion of boundary conditions