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Taming open/closed string duality with a Losev trick

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A target space string field theory formulation for open and closed B-model is provided by giving a Batalin-Vilkovisky quantization of the holomorphic Chern-Simons theory with off-shell gravity background. The target space expression for the coefficients of the holomorphic anomaly equation for open strings are obtained. Furthermore, open/closed string duality is proved from a judicious integration over the open string fields. In particular, by restriction to the case of independence on continuous open moduli, the shift formulas of [8] are reproduced and shown therefore to encode the data of a closed string dual.

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    Giulio Bonelli, Andrea Prudenziati & Alessandro Tanzini

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    Giulio Bonelli, Andrea Prudenziati & Alessandro Tanzini

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Bonelli, G., Prudenziati, A. & Tanzini, A. Taming open/closed string duality with a Losev trick. J. High Energ. Phys. 2010, 63 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP06(2010)063

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