Deformations of calibrated D-branes in flux generalized complex manifolds
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We study massless deformations of generalized calibrated cycles, which describe, in the language of generalized complex geometry, supersymmetric D-branes in N=1 supersymmetric compactifications with fluxes. We find that the deformations are classified by the first cohomology group of a Lie algebroid canonically associated to the generalized calibrated cycle, seen as a generalized complex submanifold with respect to the integrable generalized complex structure of the bulk. We provide examples in the SU(3) structure case and in a `genuine' generalized complex structure case. We discuss cases of lifting of massless modes due to world-volume fluxes, background fluxes and a generalized complex structure that changes type.
52 pages, added references, added comment on ellipticity in appendix B, made minor changes according to instructions referee JHEP
52 pages, added references, added comment on ellipticity in appendix B, made minor changes according to instructions referee JHEP