D-branes in $\lambda$-deformations

TL;DR

This paper demonstrates that D-branes in $ ext{WZW}$ models retain their geometric interpretation as twisted conjugacy classes in the $ ext{lambda}$-deformed theories, identifying integrable boundary configurations through monodromy matrix analysis.

Contribution

It extends the geometric understanding of D-branes to $ ext{lambda}$-deformed models and links these configurations to integrability and duality transformations.

Findings

D-branes as twisted conjugacy classes persist in $ ext{lambda}$-deformed models.

Constructed integrable boundary conditions using monodromy matrices.

Connected D-brane configurations to non-Abelian and Poisson-Lie T-duality.

Abstract

We show that the geometric interpretation of D-branes in WZW models as twisted conjugacy classes persists in the $\lambda$--deformed theory. We obtain such configurations by demanding that a monodromy matrix constructed from the Lax connection of the $\lambda$--deformed theory continues to produce conserved charges in the presence of boundaries. In this way the D-brane configurations obtained correspond to `integrable' boundary configurations. We illustrate this with examples based on $SU(2)$ and $SL(2,\mathbb{R})$, and comment on the relation of these D-branes to both non-Abelian T-duality and Poisson-Lie T-duality. We show that the D2 supported by D0 charge in the $\lambda$--deformed theory map, under analytic continuation together with Poisson-Lie T-duality, to D3 branes in the $\eta$-deformation of the principal chiral model.