Topological strings in generalized complex space

DOI10.4310/ATMP.2007.V11.N3.A3MaRDI QIDQ2470925zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Vasily Pestun

Publication date 15 February 2008

Published in Advances in Theoretical and Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0603145, https://projecteuclid.org/euclid.atmp/1185303967

zbMATH Keywords

generalized complex geometrytopological sigma models

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Calabi-Yau theory (complex-analytic aspects) (32Q25) Applications of global differential geometry to the sciences (53C80) Deformation quantization, star products (53D55) String and superstring theories; other extended objects (e.g., branes) in quantum field theory (81T30) Topological field theories in quantum mechanics (81T45)

Abstract: A two-dimensional topological sigma-model on a generalized Calabi-Yau target space $X$ is defined. The model is constructed in Batalin-Vilkovisky formalism using only a generalized complex structure $J$ and a pure spinor $ho$ on $X$. In the present construction the algebra of $Q$-transformations automatically closes off-shell, the model transparently depends only on $J$, the algebra of observables and correlation functions for topologically trivial maps in genus zero are easily defined. The extended moduli space appears naturally. The familiar action of the twisted N=2 CFT can be recovered after a gauge fixing. In the open case, we consider an example of generalized deformation of complex structure by a holomorphic Poisson bivector $$ and recover holomorphic noncommutative Kontsevich $\ast$-product.

Review text

The paper presents a topological sigma-model that depends only on a generalized complex structure of the target space (a generalized Calabi-Yau space). The formalism of \textit{M. Alexandrov, A. Schwarz, O. Zaboronsky} and \textit{M. Kontsevich} [Int. J. Mod. Phys. A 12, No.~7, 1405--1429 (1997; Zbl 1073.81655)], which is based on the Batalin-Vilkovisky construction, is employed. A study of the closed sector at the tree level without instanton corrections reproduces the observables and correlation functions found by \textit{S. Barannikov} and \textit{M. Kontsevich} [Int. Math. Res. Not. 1998, No.~4, 201--215 (1998; Zbl 0914.58004)] and \textit{Y. Li} [On deformations of generalized complex structures: the generalized Calabi-Yau case,\url{arXiv:hep-th/0508030v2})], identifies the extended moduli space and yields the familiar action of the twisted N=2 conformal field theory after gauge fixing. In the open sector a generalized complex structure represented by an ordinary complex structure and a holomorphic Poisson bivector is considered, whereby the product in the algebra of open strings is deformed into the non-commutative Kontsevich *-product.

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