Boundary deformation theory and moduli spaces of D-branes

DOI10.1016/S0550-3213(99)00060-7zbMath0944.81029arXivhep-th/9811237OpenAlexW3100989337MaRDI QIDQ1572025

Andreas Recknagel, Volker Schomerus

Publication date: 12 July 2000

Published in: Unnamed Author (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Boundary conformal field theory is the suitable framework for a microscopic treatment of D-branes in arbitrary CFT backgrounds. In this work, we develop boundary deformation theory in order to study the changes of boundary conditions generated by marginal boundary fields. The deformation parameters may be regarded as continuous moduli of D-branes. We identify a large class of boundary fields which are shown to be truly marginal, and we derive closed formulas describing the associated deformations to all orders in perturbation theory. This allows us to study the global topology properties of the moduli space rather than local aspects only. As an example, we analyse in detail the moduli space of c=1 theories, which displays various stringy phenomena.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9811237

zbMATH Keywords

D-branesboundary conformal field theorycontinuous moduli of D-branes

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Two-dimensional field theories, conformal field theories, etc. in quantum mechanics (81T40) String and superstring theories; other extended objects (e.g., branes) in quantum field theory (81T30)

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