01005nas a2200121   4500008004300000245005700043210005600100520062300156100002000779700002400799700002400823856003600847       2010                        en_Ud  00aTaming open/closed string duality with a Losev trick0 aTaming openclosed string duality with a Losev trick3 aA 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 [7] are reproduced and shown therefore to encode the data of a closed string dual.1 aBonelli, Giulio1 aPrudenziati, Andrea1 aTanzini, Alessandro  uhttp://hdl.handle.net/1963/385501270nas a2200133   4500008004300000245010000043210006900143520080600212100002001018700002401038700002401062700001401086856003601100       2009                        en_Ud  00aDecoupling A and B model in open string theory: topological adventures in the world of tadpoles0 aDecoupling A and B model in open string theory topological adven3 aIn this paper we analyze the problem of tadpole cancellation in open topological strings. We prove that the inclusion of unorientable worldsheet diagrams guarantees a consistent decoupling of A and B model for open superstring amplitudes at all genera. This is proven by direct microscopic computation in Super Conformal Field Theory. For the B-model we explicitly calculate one loop amplitudes in terms of analytic Ray-Singer torsions of appropriate vector bundles and obtain that the decoupling corresponds to the cancellation of D-brane and orientifold charges. Local tadpole cancellation on the worldsheet then guarantees the decoupling at all loops. The holomorphic anomaly equations for open topological strings at one loop are also obtained and compared with the results of the Quillen formula.1 aBonelli, Giulio1 aPrudenziati, Andrea1 aTanzini, Alessandro1 aJie, Yang  uhttp://hdl.handle.net/1963/3632