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Attractor Flows from Defect Lines
Deforming a two dimensional conformal field theory on one side of a trivial
defect line gives rise to a defect separating the original theory from its
deformation. The Casimir force between these defects and other defect lines or
boundaries is used to construct flows on bulk moduli spaces of CFTs. It turns
out, that these flows are constant reparametrizations of gradient flows of the
g-functions of the chosen defect or boundary condition. The special flows
associated to supersymmetric boundary conditions in N=(2,2) superconformal
field theories agree with the attractor flows studied in the context of black
holes in N=2 supergravity.Comment: 28 page
Superconformal defects in the tricritical Ising model
We study superconformal defect lines in the tricritical Ising model in 2
dimensions. By the folding trick, a superconformal defect is mapped to a
superconformal boundary of the N=1 superconformal unitary minimal model of
c=7/5 with D_6-E_6 modular invariant. It turns out that the complete set of the
boundary states of c=7/5 D_6-E_6 model cannot be interpreted as the consistent
set of superconformal defects in the tricritical Ising model since it does not
contain the "no defect" boundary state. Instead, we find a set of 18 consistent
superconformal defects including "no defect" and satisfying the Cardy
condition. This set also includes some defects which are not purely
transmissive or purely reflective.Comment: 25 pages, 3 figures. v2: typos corrected. v3: clarification about
spin structure aligned theory added, references adde
Fusion of conformal interfaces
We study the fusion of conformal interfaces in the c=1 conformal field
theory. We uncover an elegant structure reminiscent of that of black holes in
supersymmetric theories. The role of the BPS black holes is played by
topological interfaces, which (a) minimize the entropy function, (b) fix
through an attractor mechanism one or both of the bulk radii, and (c) are
(marginally) stable under splitting. One significant difference is that the
conserved charges are logarithms of natural numbers, rather than vectors in a
charge lattice, as for BPS states. Besides potential applications to
condensed-matter physics and number theory, these results point to the
existence of large solution-generating algebras in string theory.Comment: 28 pages, 4 figures. Minor clarifications in v2. Sign Mistakes
corrected and reference added in v
Permutation branes and linear matrix factorisations
All the known rational boundary states for Gepner models can be regarded as
permutation branes. On general grounds, one expects that topological branes in
Gepner models can be encoded as matrix factorisations of the corresponding
Landau-Ginzburg potentials. In this paper we identify the matrix factorisations
associated to arbitrary B-type permutation branes.Comment: 43 pages. v2: References adde
Tensor Product and Permutation Branes on the Torus
We consider B-type D-branes in the Gepner model consisting of two minimal
models at k=2. This Gepner model is mirror to a torus theory. We establish the
dictionary identifying the B-type D-branes of the Gepner model with A-type
Neumann and Dirichlet branes on the torus.Comment: 26 page
Chiral Supersymmetric Gepner Model Orientifolds
We explicitly construct A-type orientifolds of supersymmetric Gepner models.
In order to reduce the tadpole cancellation conditions to a treatable number we
explicitly work out the generic form of the one-loop Klein bottle, annulus and
Moebius strip amplitudes for simple current extensions of Gepner models.
Equipped with these formulas, we discuss two examples in detail to provide
evidence that in this setting certain features of the MSSM like unitary gauge
groups with large enough rank, chirality and family replication can be
achieved.Comment: 37 pages, TeX (harvmac), minor changes, typos corrected, to appear in
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Permutation Orientifolds of Gepner Models
In tensor products of a left-right symmetric CFT, one can define permutation
orientifolds by combining orientation reversal with involutive permutation
symmetries. We construct the corresponding crosscap states in general rational
CFTs and their orbifolds, and study in detail those in products of affine
U(1)_2 models or N=2 minimal models. The results are used to construct
permutation orientifolds of Gepner models. We list the permutation orientifolds
in a few simple Gepner models, and study some of their physical properties -
supersymmetry, tension and RR charges. We also study the action of
corresponding parity on D-branes, and determine the gauge group on a stack of
parity-invariant D-branes. Tadpole cancellation condition and some of its
solutions are also presented.Comment: 2+67 pages, no figures. v3: references added, version to appear in
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D-brane superpotentials and RG flows on the quintic
The behaviour of D2-branes on the quintic under complex structure
deformations is analysed by combining Landau-Ginzburg techniques with methods
from conformal field theory. It is shown that the boundary renormalisation
group flow induced by the bulk deformations is realised as a gradient flow of
the effective space time superpotential which is calculated explicitly to all
orders in the boundary coupling constant.Comment: 24 pages, 1 figure, v2:Typo in (3.14) correcte
Moduli Webs and Superpotentials for Five-Branes
We investigate the one-parameter Calabi-Yau models and identify families of
D5-branes which are associated to lines embedded in these manifolds. The moduli
spaces are given by sets of Riemann curves, which form a web whose intersection
points are described by permutation branes. We arrive at a geometric
interpretation for bulk-boundary correlators as holomorphic differentials on
the moduli space and use this to compute effective open-closed superpotentials
to all orders in the open string couplings. The fixed points of D5-brane moduli
under bulk deformations are determined.Comment: 41 pages, 1 figur
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