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We provide a complete generators and relations presentation of the 2-dimensional extended unoriented and oriented bordism bicategories as symmetric monoidal bicategories. Thereby we classify these types of 2-dimensional extended topological…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2014-08-05 Christopher J. Schommer-Pries

We provide a brane realization of 2d (0,2) Gadde-Gukov-Putrov triality in terms of brane brick models. These are Type IIA brane configurations that are T-dual to D1-branes over singular toric Calabi-Yau 4-folds. Triality translates into a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-05-09 Sebastian Franco , Sangmin Lee , Rak-Kyeong Seong

Categorical enumerative invariants of a Calabi-Yau category, encoded as the partition function of the associated closed string field theory (SFT), conjecturally equal Gromov-Witten invariants when applied to Fukaya categories. Part of this…

Quantum Algebra · Mathematics 2025-07-23 Jakob Ulmer

In this paper we develop a graded tilting theory for gauged Landau-Ginzburg models of regular sections in vector bundles over projective varieties. Our main theoretical result describes - under certain conditions - the bounded derived…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2021-06-08 Christian Okonek , Andrei Teleman

In this talk we give a brief review of the algebraic structure behind the open and closed topological strings and $D$-branes and emphasize the role of tensor category and the Frobenius algebra. Also, we speculate on the possibility of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Ion V. Vancea

We introduce and initiate the investigation of a general class of 4d, N=1 quiver gauge theories whose Lagrangian is defined by a bipartite graph on a Riemann surface, with or without boundaries. We refer to such class of theories as…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-05 Sebastian Franco

We revisit open string mirror symmetry for the elliptic curve, using matrix factorizations for describing D-branes on the B-model side. We show how flat coordinates can be intrinsically defined in the Landau-Ginzburg model, and derive the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-10 Ilka Brunner , Manfred Herbst , Wolfgang Lerche , Johannes Walcher

This paper introduces a mathematical definition of the category of D-branes in Landau-Ginzburg orbifolds in terms of $A_\infty$-categories. Our categories coincide with the categories of (graded) matrix factorizations for quasi-homogeneous…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Atsushi Takahashi

We apply the mechanism of factorization homology to construct and compute category-valued two-dimensional topological field theories associated to braided tensor categories, generalizing the $(0,1,2)$-dimensional part of…

Quantum Algebra · Mathematics 2018-08-15 David Ben-Zvi , Adrien Brochier , David Jordan

We study open B-model representing D-branes on 2-cycles of local Calabi--Yau geometries. To this end we work out a reduction technique linking D-branes partition functions and multi-matrix models in the case of conifold geometries so that…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-11 G. Bonelli , L. Bonora , A. Ricco

In this short note, we classify linear categorified open topological field theories in dimension two by pivotal Grothendieck-Verdier categories, a type of monoidal category equipped with a weak, not necessarily rigid duality. In combination…

Quantum Algebra · Mathematics 2025-08-01 Lukas Müller , Lukas Woike

We propose a formalism inspired by matrix models to compute open and closed topological string amplitudes in the B-model on toric Calabi-Yau manifolds. We find closed expressions for various open string amplitudes beyond the disk, and in…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Marcos Marino

A classical result in quantum topology is that oriented 2-dimensional topological quantum field theories (2-TQFTs) are fully classified by commutative Frobenius algebras. In 2006, Turaev and Turner introduced additional structure on…

Quantum Algebra · Mathematics 2025-11-04 Agustina Czenky , Jacob Kesten , Abiel Quinonez , Chelsea Walton

We define a particular class of topological field theories associated to open strings and prove the resulting D-branes and open strings form the bounded derived category of coherent sheaves. This derivation is a variant of some ideas…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-02-03 Paul S. Aspinwall , Albion Lawrence

We show that the moduli spaces of Thaddeus pairs on smooth projective curves and those of dual pairs are related by d-critical flips, which are virtual birational transformations introduced by the second author. We then prove the existence…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2020-01-24 Naoki Koseki , Yukinobu Toda

This thesis is concerned with D-branes in topological string theory, focusing on the description of B-type D-branes in topological Landau-Ginzburg models. Such D-branes are characterized by matrix factorizations of the Landau-Ginzburg…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-09-14 Johanna Knapp

We propose a unified framework to classify gapped infra-red (IR) phases with categorical symmetries, leading to a generalized, categorical Landau paradigm. This is applicable in any dimension and gives a succinct, comprehensive, and…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-10-24 Lakshya Bhardwaj , Lea E. Bottini , Daniel Pajer , Sakura Schafer-Nameki

Topological quantum field theories (TQFTs) are symmetric monoidal functors out of cobordism categories. In dimension two, oriented TQFTs are famously classified by commutative Frobenius algebras. In the unoriented setting, the…

Quantum Algebra · Mathematics 2025-12-11 Leon J. Goertz , Paul Wedrich

We construct new examples of derived autoequivalences for a family of higher-dimensional Calabi-Yau varieties. Specifically, we take the total spaces of certain natural vector bundles over Grassmannians G(r,d) of r-planes in a d-dimensional…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2014-02-26 Will Donovan

We investigate boundary dynamics of orbifold conformal field theory involving T-duality twists. Such models typically appear in contexts of non-geometric string compactifications that are called monodrofolds or T-folds in recent literature.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-06-11 Shinsuke Kawai , Yuji Sugawara