Extended holomorphic anomaly and loop amplitudes in open topological string

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 bound...

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1. Verfasser: Walcher, Johannes (VerfasserIn)
Dokumenttyp: Article (Journal)
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: 11 February 2009
In: Nuclear physics. B, Particle physics
Year: 2009, Jahrgang: 817, Heft: 3, Pages: 167-207
ISSN:1873-1562
DOI:10.1016/j.nuclphysb.2009.02.006
Online-Zugang:Verlag, kostenfrei, Volltext: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.nuclphysb.2009.02.006
Verlag, kostenfrei, Volltext: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0550321309000777
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Verfasserangaben:Johannes Walcher
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Zusammenfassung: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.
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ISSN:1873-1562
DOI:10.1016/j.nuclphysb.2009.02.006