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Computation of Superpotentials for D-Branes

High Energy Physics - Theory 2015-06-26 v1

Abstract

We present a general method for the computation of tree-level superpotentials for the world-volume theory of B-type D-branes. This includes quiver gauge theories in the case that the D-brane is marginally stable. The technique involves analyzing the A-infinity structure inherent in the derived category of coherent sheaves. This effectively gives a practical method of computing correlation functions in holomorphic Chern-Simons theory. As an example, we give a more rigorous proof of previous results concerning 3-branes on certain singularities including conifolds. We also provide a new example.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/0412209,
  title  = {Computation of Superpotentials for D-Branes},
  author = {Paul S. Aspinwall and Sheldon Katz},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/0412209},
  year   = {2015}
}

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28 pages

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