2001/01/30 by Cumrun Vafa, Vafa, Cumrun · 4 citations
Physics and Astronomy · #FOS: Physical sciences #High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th) #hep-th
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.hep-th/0101218
10 pages, additional reference included
arxiv created 2001/03/19 · arxiv updated 2009/11/30
We show that in the context of topological string theories N branes and M anti-branes give rise to Chern-Simons gauge theory with the gauge supergroup U(N|M). We also identify a deformation of the theory which corresponds to brane/anti-brane annihilation. Furthermore we show that when N=M all open string states are BRST trivial in the deformed theory.