The \(\hat{A}\)-genus as a projective volume form on the derived loop space (Q1664460): Difference between revisions

Taking the factorization algebra approach of Costello to perturbative quantum field theory, the author collaborating with Gwilliam worked out a one-loop quantization of a one-dimensional sigma model with target the cotangent bundle $T^{\ast}X$ of a manifold $X$, identifying the partition function as the $\hat{A}$-genus $\hat{A}\left( X\right) $. In this paper, the author working in the $L_{\infty}$ space formalism shows that for a complex manifold $X$, the one-loop quantization determines a projective volume form $\overline {\mathrm{dVol}}_{S^{1}}$ on the $L_{\infty}$ space $\widehat{\mathcal{L}_{dR}X}$ such that $\int_{\widehat{\mathcal{L}_{dR}X}}\alpha\overline{\mathrm{dVol}}_{S^{1}}=k\int_{X}\alpha\hat{A}\left( X\right) $ for a nonzero constant $k$ and all holomorphic differential forms $\alpha$. A variant of this result is also obtained for the smooth case.