B-type defects in Landau-Ginzburg models

Jul, 2007
51 pages
Published in:
  • JHEP 08 (2007) 093
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Abstract: (arXiv)
We consider Landau-Ginzburg models with possibly different superpotentials glued together along one-dimensional defect lines. Defects preserving B-type supersymmetry can be represented by matrix factorisations of the difference of the superpotentials. The composition of these defects and their action on B-type boundary conditions is described in this framework. The cases of Landau-Ginzburg models with superpotential W=X^d and W=X^d+Z^2 are analysed in detail, and the results are compared to the CFT treatment of defects in N=2 superconformal minimal models to which these Landau-Ginzburg models flow in the IR.
  • Landau-Ginzburg model
  • dimension: 2
  • defect: topological
  • supersymmetry: superspace
  • supersymmetry: 2
  • superpotential
  • potential: Kaehler
  • field theory: conformal
  • model: minimal