Topological Open Membranes

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dc.creatorHofman, Christiaan
dc.creatorPark, Jae-Suk
dc.date2002-09-18
dc.date.accessioned2026-07-07T04:14:09Z
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dc.descriptionWe study topological open membranes of BF type in a manifest BV formalism. Our main interest is the effect of the bulk deformations on the algebra of boundary operators. This forms a homotopy Lie algebra, which can be understood in terms of a closed string field theory. The simplest models are associated to quasi-Lie bialgebras and are of Chern-Simons type. More generally, the induced structure is a Courant algebroid, or ``quasi-Lie bialgebroid'', with boundary conditions related to Dirac bundles. A canonical example is the topological open membrane coupling to a closed 3-form, modeling the deformation of strings by a C-field. The Courant algebroid for this model describes a modification of deformation quantization. We propose our models as a tool to find a formal solution to the quantization problem of Courant algebroids.
dc.description40 pages
dc.identifierhttps://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0209148
dc.identifierhttp://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0209148
dc.identifier.urihttp://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/51518
dc.subjectHigh Energy Physics - Theory
dc.subjectQuantum Algebra
dc.titleTopological Open Membranes
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