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Published August 2005 | Published
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Open-string BRST cohomology for generalized complex branes

Abstract

It has been shown recently that the geometry of D-branes in general topologically twisted (2,2) sigma-models can be described in the language of generalized complex (GC) structures. On general grounds, such D-branes (called GC branes) must form a category. We compute the BRST cohomology of open strings with both ends on the same GC brane. In mathematical terms, we determine spaces of endomorphisms in the category of GC branes. We find that the BRST cohomology can be expressed as the cohomology of a Lie algebroid canonically associated to any GC brane. In the special case of B-branes, this leads to an apparently new way to compute Ext groups of holomorphic line bundles supported on complex submanifolds: while the usual method leads to a spectral sequence converging to the Ext, our approach expresses the Ext group as the cohomology of a certain differential acting on the space of smooth sections of a graded vector bundle on the submanifold. In the case of coisotropic A-branes, our computation confirms a proposal of Orlov and one of the authors (A.K.).

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2005 © International Press of Boston. A.K. would like to thank Alexey Bondal, Andrei Căldăraru, Tony Pantev, and Marco Gualtieri for helpful discussions. Y.L. would like to thank Yong-Geun Oh for an interesting discussion. We are also grateful to the organizers of the Workshop on Mirror Symmetry at the Perimeter Institute, Waterloo, for providing a stimulating atmosphere. This work was supported in part by the DOE grant DE-FG03-92-ER40701.

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