An N = 2 worldsheet approach to D-branes in bihermitian geometries: I. Chiral and twisted chiral fields

DOI10.1088/1126-6708/2008/10/108zbMATH Open1245.81283arXiv0809.3659OpenAlexW3098820316MaRDI QIDQ440404FDOQ440404

Authors: Alexander Sevrin, W. Staessens, Alexander Wijns 

Publication date: 18 August 2012

Published in: Journal of High Energy Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We investigate N=(2,2) supersymmetric nonlinear sigma-models in the presence of a boundary. We restrict our attention to the case where the bulk geometry is described by chiral and twisted chiral superfields corresponding to a bihermitian bulk geometry with two commuting complex structures. The D-brane configurations preserving an N=2 worldsheet supersymmetry are identified. Duality transformations interchanging chiral for twisted chiral fields and vice versa while preserving all supersymmetries are explicitly constructed. We illustrate our results with various explicit examples such as the WZW-model on the Hopf surface S3xS1. The duality transformations provide e.g new examples of coisotropic A-branes on Kahler manifolds (which are not necessarily hyper-Kahler). Finally, by dualizing a chiral and a twisted chiral field to a semi-chiral multiplet, we initiate the study of D-branes in bihermitian geometries where the cokernel of the commutator of the complex structures is non-empty.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0809.3659

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zbMATH Keywords

D-brane configurationssupersymmetric nonlinear \(\sigma \)-models

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of global differential geometry to the sciences (53C80) String and superstring theories; other extended objects (e.g., branes) in quantum field theory (81T30) Supersymmetric field theories in quantum mechanics (81T60)

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