Published August 21, 2009 | Version v1
Journal article

Extended holomorphic anomaly and loop amplitudes in open topological string

  • 1. School of Natural Sciences, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, NJ (United States)

Description

Open topological string amplitudes on compact Calabi-Yau threefolds are shown to satisfy an extension of the holomorphic anomaly equation of Bershadsky, Cecotti, Ooguri and Vafa. The total topological charge of the D-brane configuration must vanish in order to satisfy tadpole cancellation. The boundary state of such D-branes is holomorphically captured by a Hodge theoretic normal function. Its Griffiths' infinitesimal invariant is the analogue of the closed string Yukawa coupling and plays the role of the terminator in a Feynman diagram expansion for the topological string with D-branes. The holomorphic anomaly equation is solved and the holomorphic ambiguity is fixed for some representative worldsheets of low genus and with few boundaries on the real quintic.

Availability note (English)

Available from http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.nuclphysb.2009.02.006

Additional details

Identifiers

DOI
10.1016/j.nuclphysb.2009.02.006;
arXiv
arXiv:0705.4098v4;
PII
S0550-3213(09)00077-7;

Publishing Information

Journal Title
Nuclear Physics. B
Journal Volume
817
Journal Issue
3
Journal Page Range
p. 167-207
ISSN
0550-3213
CODEN
NUPBBO

INIS

Country of Publication
Netherlands
Country of Input or Organization
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
INIS RN
41059334
Subject category
S72: PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS;
Descriptors DEI
AMPLITUDES; D-BRANES; EQUATIONS; FEYNMAN DIAGRAM; FUNCTIONS; TOPOLOGY; YUKAWA POTENTIAL
Descriptors DEC
BRANES; DIAGRAMS; INFORMATION; MATHEMATICS; NUCLEAR POTENTIAL; POTENTIALS

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Copyright (c) 2009 Elsevier Science B.V., Amsterdam, The Netherlands, All rights reserved.