The open-closed holography partition-function conjecture

Let PC,λ,h,s={C,λ,h,s}\mathcal{P}_{\mathcal{C},\lambda,h,s}=\{\mathcal{C},\lambda,h,s\} be a holography package consisting of a smooth cyclic AA_\infty-category C\mathcal{C}, an object λC\lambda\in\mathcal{C}, a trivialization (dhoch+uB)h=ch(λ)(d_{hoch}+uB)h=ch(\lambda), and a splitting ss. Let Zc,br(PC,λ,h,s)Z^{c,br}(\mathcal{P}_{\mathcal{C},\lambda,h,s}) and Zo(PC,λ,h,s)Z^o(\mathcal{P}_{\mathcal{C},\lambda,h,s}) be the backreacted closed and large NN open string field theory partition functions, respectively. Write ιc\iota_c and ιo\iota_o for the natural inclusion maps into Fc(C)TrivFo(λ)\mathcal{F}^{c}(\mathcal{C})^{Triv}\otimes\mathcal{F}^{o}(\lambda), and let dhoch+d+Δod_{hoch}+d+\Delta_o be the induced differential. Conjecture H. The partition function of the backreacted closed string field theory is homologous to that of the large NN open string field theory:

ιc(Zc,br(PC,λ,h,s))ιo(Zo(PC,λ,h,s)),\iota_c\bigl(Z^{c,br}(\mathcal{P}_{\mathcal{C},\lambda,h,s})\bigr)\simeq \iota_o\bigl(Z^o(\mathcal{P}_{\mathcal{C},\lambda,h,s})\bigr),

as elements of

H(Fc(C)trivFo(λ),dhoch+d+Δo).H_*\bigl(\mathcal{F}^{c}(\mathcal{C})^{triv}\otimes\mathcal{F}^{o}(\lambda),d_{hoch}+d+\Delta_o\bigr).

This is the partition-function formulation of open-closed holography: the closed theory obtained by backreaction in the direction of the brane λ\lambda should agree homologically with the large NN open theory. The supplied text gives no evidence that the conjecture has been proved or refuted.

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Jakob Ulmer, “Open-Closed String Field Theory from Calabi-Yau Categories and its Applications to Enumerative Geometry”, arXiv:2603.18186 (2026).

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