Topological D-branes and commutative algebra

DOI10.4310/CNTP.2009.V3.N3.A1zbMATH Open1358.81146arXivhep-th/0703279MaRDI QIDQ846255FDOQ846255

Authors: Paul S. Aspinwall 

Publication date: 8 February 2010

Published in: Communications in Number Theory and Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We show that questions concerning the topological B-model on a Calabi-Yau manifold in the Landau-Ginzburg phase can be rephrased in the language of commutative algebra. This yields interesting and very practical methods for analyzing the model. We demonstrate how the relevant "Ext" groups and superpotentials can be computed efficiently by computer algebra packages such as Macaulay. This picture leads us to conjecture a general description of D-branes in linear sigma models in terms of triangulated categories. Each phase of the linear sigma model is associated with a different presentation of the category of D-branes.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0703279

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Calabi-Yau manifolds (algebro-geometric aspects) (14J32) String and superstring theories; other extended objects (e.g., branes) in quantum field theory (81T30) Topological field theories in quantum mechanics (81T45) Other elementary particle theory in quantum theory (81V25) Grothendieck groups, (K)-theory and commutative rings (13D15)

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Uses Software

• Macaulay2

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