Wednesday, August 8, 2012

1208.1481 (Nils Carqueville et al.)

Adjunctions and defects in Landau-Ginzburg models    [PDF]

Nils Carqueville, Daniel Murfet
We study the bicategory of Landau-Ginzburg models, which has potentials as objects and matrix factorisations as 1-morphisms. Our main result is the existence of adjoints in this bicategory and a description of evaluation and coevaluation maps in terms of Atiyah classes and homological perturbation. Being simultaneously conceptual and explicit, our construction lends itself to applications in numerous directions. In particular, the bicategorical perspective offers a unified approach to Landau-Ginzburg models: we show how to compute arbitrary correlators and recover the full structure of open/closed TFT, including the Kapustin-Li disk correlator and a simple proof of the Cardy condition, in terms of defect operators which in turn are directly computable from the adjunctions.
View original: http://arxiv.org/abs/1208.1481

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