N=2 boundary conditions for nonlinear sigma models and Landau-Ginzburg models
Sep, 200247 pages
Published in:
- JHEP 02 (2003) 006
e-Print:
- hep-th/0209098 [hep-th]
Report number:
- UUITP-11-02
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Abstract:
We study N=2 nonlinear two dimensional sigma models with boundaries and their massive generalizations (the Landau-Ginzburg models). These models are defined over either Kahler or bihermitian target space manifolds. We determine the most general local N=2 superconformal boundary conditions (D-branes) for these sigma models. In the Kahler case we reproduce the known results in a systematic fashion including interesting results concerning the coisotropic A-type branes. We further analyse the N=2 superconformal boundary conditions for sigma models defined over a bihermitian manifold with torsion. We interpret the boundary conditions in terms of different types of submanifolds of the target space. We point out how the open sigma models correspond to new types of target space geometry. For the massive Landau-Ginzburg models (both Kahler and bihermitian) we discuss an important class of supersymmetric boundary conditions which admits a nice geometrical interpretation.- sigma model: nonlinear
- Landau-Ginzburg model
- dimension: 2
- field theory: Kaehler
- boundary condition
- current
- supersymmetry
- geometry
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