The Hitchin Functionals and the Topological B-Model at One Loop
Abstract
The quantization in quadratic order of the Hitchin functional, which defines by critical points a Calabi-Yau structure on a six-dimensional manifold, is performed. The conjectured relation between the topological B-model and the Hitchin functional is studied at one loop. It is found that the genus one free energy of the topological B-model disagrees with the one-loop free energy of the minimal Hitchin functional. However, the topological B-model does agree at one-loop order with the extended Hitchin functional, which also defines by critical points a generalized Calabi-Yau structure. The dependence of the one-loop result on a background metric is studied, and a gravitational anomaly is found for both the B-model and the extended Hitchin model. The anomaly reduces to a volume-dependent factor if one computes for only Ricci-flat Kähler metrics
- Publication:
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Letters in Mathematical Physics
- Pub Date:
- October 2005
- DOI:
- 10.1007/s11005-005-0007-9
- arXiv:
- arXiv:hep-th/0503083
- Bibcode:
- 2005LMaPh..74...21P
- Keywords:
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- generalized complex structures;
- topological M-theory;
- topological B-model;
- High Energy Physics - Theory
- E-Print:
- 33 pages, LaTeX