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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.

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@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

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