2002/10/31 by Anton Kapustin, Yi Li · 1 citation
Physics and Astronomy · Mathematics · #hep-th #math.AG #math.SG
paper · pdf · doi:10.1088/1126-6708/2003/12/005
published as JHEP0312:005,2003 · 51 pages, AMS latex; two eps figures. v2: a physical derivation of Kontsevich's proposal is given
arxiv created 2002/11/27 · arxiv updated 2009/11/30
We study topological D-branes of type B in N=2 Landau-Ginzburg models, focusing on the case where all vacua have a mass gap. In general, tree-level topological string theory in the presence of topological D-branes is described mathematically in terms of a triangulated category. For example, it has been argued that B-branes for an N=2 sigma-model with a Calabi-Yau target space are described by the derived category of coherent sheaves on this space. M. Kontsevich previously proposed a candidate category for B-branes in N=2 Landau-Ginzburg models, and our computations confirm this proposal. We also give a heuristic physical derivation of the proposal. Assuming its validity, we can completely describe the category of B-branes in an arbitrary massive Landau-Ginzburg model in terms of modules over a Clifford algebra. Assuming in addition Homological Mirror Symmetry, our results enable one to compute the Fukaya category for a large class of Fano varieties. We also provide a (somewhat trivial) counter-example to the hypothesis that given a closed string background there is a unique set of D-branes consistent with it.