Deformations and D-branes. (English) Zbl 1145.81046

Bergman, Aaron

Adv. Theor. Math. Phys. 12, No. 4, 781-815 (2008).

Summary: I discuss the relation of Hochschild cohomology to the physical states in the closed topological string. This allows a notion of deformation intrinsic to the derived category. I use this to identify deformations of a quiver gauge theory associated to a D-branes at a singularity with generalized deformations of the geometry of the resolution of the singularity. An explicit map is given from noncommutative deformations (i.e., B-fields) to terms in the superpotential.

MSC:

81T30	String and superstring theories; other extended objects (e.g., branes) in quantum field theory
81T13	Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in quantum field theory
57R58	Floer homology