Topological Open Membranes
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Publication:6467571
arXivhep-th/0209148MaRDI QIDQ6467571FDOQ6467571
Authors: C. Hofman, Jae-Suk Park 
Publication date: 18 September 2002
Abstract: We study topological open membranes of BF type in a manifest BV formalism. Our main interest is the effect of the bulk deformations on the algebra of boundary operators. This forms a homotopy Lie algebra, which can be understood in terms of a closed string field theory. The simplest models are associated to quasi-Lie bialgebras and are of Chern-Simons type. More generally, the induced structure is a Courant algebroid, or ``quasi-Lie bialgebroid, with boundary conditions related to Dirac bundles. A canonical example is the topological open membrane coupling to a closed 3-form, modeling the deformation of strings by a C-field. The Courant algebroid for this model describes a modification of deformation quantization. We propose our models as a tool to find a formal solution to the quantization problem of Courant algebroids.
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