Published April 2008 | Version v1
Journal article

D-brane categories for orientifolds-the Landau-Ginzburg case

  • 1. Department of Physics, University of Toronto, 60 St. George Street, Toronto, Ontario, M5S 1A7 (Canada)
  • 2. School of Natural Sciences, Institute for Advanced Study, 1 Einstein Drive, Princeton, NJ 08540 (United States)

Description

We construct and classify categories of D-branes in orientifolds based on Landau-Ginzburg models and their orbifolds. Consistency of the worldsheet parity action on the matrix factorizations plays the key role. This provides all the requisite data for an orientifold construction after embedding in string theory. One of our main results is a computation of topological field theory correlators on unoriented worldsheets, generalizing the formulas of Vafa and Kapustin-Li for oriented worldsheets, as well as the extension of these results to orbifolds. We also find a doubling of Knoerrer periodicity in the orientifold context

Availability note (English)

Available from http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1126-6708/2008/04/030

Additional details

Publishing Information

Journal Title
Journal of High Energy Physics
Journal Volume
04
Journal Issue
2008
Journal Page Range
p. 030
ISSN
1126-6708

INIS

Country of Publication
Italy
Country of Input or Organization
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
INIS RN
40071706
Subject category
S72: PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS;
Descriptors DEI
D-BRANES; FACTORIZATION; GINZBURG-LANDAU THEORY; PARITY; PERIODICITY; QUANTUM FIELD THEORY; STRING THEORY; TOPOLOGY
Descriptors DEC
BRANES; FIELD THEORIES; M-THEORY; MATHEMATICS; PARTICLE PROPERTIES; VARIATIONS