Nontrivial Azumaya noncommutative schemes, morphisms therefrom, and their extension by the sheaf of algebras of differential operators: D-branes in a $B$-field background à la Polchinski-Grothendieck Ansatz

Abstract

In this continuation of [L-Y1], [L-L-S-Y], [L-Y2], and [L-Y3] (arXiv:0709.1515 [math.AG], arXiv:0809.2121 [math.AG], arXiv:0901.0342 [math.AG], arXiv:0907.0268 [math.AG]), we study D-branes in a target-space with a fixed $B$-field background $(Y,{\alpha }_B)$ along the line of the Polchinski-Grothendieck Ansatz, explained in [L-Y1] and further extended in the current work. We focus first on the gauge-field-twist effect of $B$-field to the Chan-Paton module on D-branes. Basic properties of the moduli space of D-branes, as morphisms from Azumaya schemes with a twisted fundamental module to $(Y,{\alpha }_B)$, are given. For holomorphic D-strings, we prove a valuation-criterion property of this moduli space. The setting is then extended to take into account also the deformation-quantization-type noncommutative geometry effect of $B$-field to both the D-brane world-volume and the superstring target-space(-time) $Y$. This brings the notion of twisted $\mathcal{D}$-modules that are realizable as twisted locally-free coherent modules with a flat connection into the study. We use this to realize the notion of both the classical and the quantum spectral covers as morphisms from Azumaya schemes with a fundamental module (with a flat connection in the latter case) in a very special situation. The 3rd theme (subtitled "Sharp vs. Polchinski-Grothendieck") of Sec. 2.2 is to be read with the work [Sh3] (arXiv:hep-th/0102197) of Sharp while Sec. 5.2 (subtitled less appropriately "Dijkgraaf-Holland-Sułkowski-Vafa vs. Polchinski-Grothendieck") is to be read with the related sections in [D-H-S-V] (arXiv:0709.4446 [hep-th]) and [D-H-S] (arXiv:0810.4157 [hep-th]) of Dijkgraaf, Hollands, Sułkowski, and Vafa.

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