The world-sheet description of A and B branes revisited

DOI10.1088/1126-6708/2007/11/061zbMATH Open1245.81224arXiv0709.3733OpenAlexW2115573927MaRDI QIDQ445700FDOQ445700

Alexander Sevrin, W. Staessens, Alexander Wijns

Publication date: 26 August 2012

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

Abstract: We give a manifest supersymmetric description of A and B branes on Kahler manifolds using a completely local N=2 superspace formulation of the world-sheet nonlinear sigma-model in the presence of a boundary. In particular, we show that an N=2 superspace description of type A boundaries is possible, at least when the background is Kahler. This leads to an elegant and concrete setting for studying coisotropic A branes. Here, apgesan important role is played by the boundary potential, whose precise physical meaning remains to be fully understood. Duality transformations relating A and B branes in the presence of isometries are studied as well.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0709.3733

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zbMATH Keywords

A branesB branesworld-sheet description

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

String and superstring theories; other extended objects (e.g., branes) in quantum field theory (81T30)

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• A and B branes from \(N=2\) superspace
• Bi-branes: Target space geometry for world sheet topological defects
• Manifestly supersymmetric RG flows

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