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J-holomorphic curves and Dirac-harmonic maps

Differential Geometry 2020-01-03 v2 Mathematical Physics math.MP Symplectic Geometry

Abstract

Dirac-harmonic maps are critical points of a fermionic action functional, generalizing the Dirichlet energy for harmonic maps. We consider the case where the source manifold is a closed Riemann surface with the canonical Spin^c-structure determined by the complex structure and the target space is a Kaehler manifold. If the underlying map f is a J-holomorphic curve, we determine a space of spinors on the Riemann surface which form Dirac-harmonic maps together with f. For suitable complex structures on the target manifold the tangent bundle to the moduli space of J-holomorphic curves consists of Dirac-harmonic maps. We also discuss the relation to the A-model of topological string theory.

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@article{arxiv.1908.02275,
  title  = {J-holomorphic curves and Dirac-harmonic maps},
  author = {M. J. D. Hamilton},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1908.02275},
  year   = {2020}
}

Comments

21 pages; corrections and improvements; to appear in Differential Geom. Appl

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