%0 Journal Article %J JHEP 06(2010)063 %D 2010 %T Taming open/closed string duality with a Losev trick %A Giulio Bonelli %A Andrea Prudenziati %A Alessandro Tanzini %X 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 [7] are reproduced and shown therefore to encode the data of a closed string dual. %B JHEP 06(2010)063 %G en_US %U http://hdl.handle.net/1963/3855 %1 854 %2 Physics %3 Mathematical Physics %$ Submitted by Andrea Wehrenfennig (andreaw@sissa.it) on 2010-04-27T10:19:29Z\\nNo. of bitstreams: 1\\nBonelli_1003.2519v2.pdf: 244116 bytes, checksum: e9e48e420eda839f478ab8a4da3e7136 (MD5) %R 10.1007/JHEP06(2010)063 %0 Journal Article %J JHEP 06 (2009) 046 %D 2009 %T Decoupling A and B model in open string theory: topological adventures in the world of tadpoles %A Giulio Bonelli %A Andrea Prudenziati %A Alessandro Tanzini %A Yang Jie %X In 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. %B JHEP 06 (2009) 046 %G en_US %U http://hdl.handle.net/1963/3632 %1 672 %2 Physics %3 Mathematical Physics %$ Submitted by Andrea Wehrenfennig (andreaw@sissa.it) on 2009-05-14T12:10:45Z\\nNo. of bitstreams: 1\\n0905.1286v1.pdf: 335944 bytes, checksum: fe5d3723cd904f1c7123c5bc83356013 (MD5) %R 10.1088/1126-6708/2009/06/046