Genus-like expansion conjecture for the D3-brane path integral

Let YY be a target space-time and let ZD3(Y)Z_{D3}(Y) denote the path integral of a perturbative D3-brane theory, with contributions summed over fundamental closed orientable 44-manifolds XX and integrated over morphisms from Azumaya manifolds (XA ⁣z,E)(X^{A\!z},{\cal E}) to YY. Genus-like expansion conjecture. There exists a built-in natural genus-like expansion for the path integral ZD3(Y)Z_{D3}(Y) of a perturbative D3-brane theory. This is motivated by the role of closed orientable 22-manifolds and genus expansions in string path integrals, together with the proposed sum over fundamental 44-manifolds for D3-branes; the source does not state a resolution.

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Chien-Hao Liu and Shing-Tung Yau, “D-branes of A-type, their deformations, and Morse cobordism of A-branes on Calabi-Yau 3-folds under a split attractor flow: Donaldson/Alexander-Hilden-Lozano-Montesinos-Thurston/Hurwitz/Denef-Joyce meeting Polchinski-Grothendieck”, arXiv:1012.0525 (2010).

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