Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Theory
Scientific paper
2006-11-07
JHEP0802:012,2008
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Theory
55 pages, no figures
Scientific paper
10.1088/1126-6708/2008/02/012
We consider an open string version of the topological twist previously proposed for sigma-models with G2 target spaces. We determine the cohomology of open strings states and relate these to geometric deformations of calibrated submanifolds and to flat or anti-self-dual connections on such submanifolds. On associative three-cycles we show that the worldvolume theory is a gauge-fixed Chern-Simons theory coupled to normal deformations of the cycle. For coassociative four-cycles we find a functional that extremizes on anti-self-dual gauge fields. A brane wrapping the whole G2 induces a seven-dimensional associative Chern-Simons theory on the manifold. This theory has already been proposed by Donaldson and Thomas as the higher-dimensional generalization of real Chern-Simons theory. When the G2 manifold has the structure of a Calabi-Yau times a circle, these theories reduce to a combination of the open A-model on special Lagrangians and the open B+\bar{B}-model on holomorphic submanifolds. We also comment on possible applications of our results.
Boer Jan de
El-Showk Sheer
Medeiros Paul de
Sinkovics Annamaria
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