Dispersionless integrable hierarchy via Kodaira-Spencer gravity (Q2200878)

After collecting geometric basics on field theories in the Batalin-Vilkovisky (BV) formalism the authors explain the connection between dispersionless integrable hierarchy in 2d topological field theory and the Kodaira-Spencer gravity (BCOV theory). The authors prove, in particular, that the infinitely many commutating Hamiltonians arise naturally from the infinite abelian symmetries of Kodaira-Spencer gravity extended to include gravitational descendants as formulated in [\textit{K. Costello} and \textit{S. Li}, ``Quantum BCOV theory on Calabi-Yau manifolds and the higher genus B-model'', Preprint, \url{arXiv:1201.4501}]. Let \(H\) be a finite-dimensional graded vector space, which is the small phase space of a 2d topological field theory. The big phase space is \(H[\![u]\!]\) where \(u\) is a formal variable representing the gravitational descendant. The fields in the BCOV theory are given by the cochain complex \(\mathrm{PV}(Y )[\![u]\!]\) where \(Y\) is a Calabi-Yau manifold and \(\mathrm{PV}\) is the space of smooth polyvector fields. The authors define the classical BCOV interaction \(I_Y^ H\) by \[I^ H_Y (\mu)=\mathrm{Tr} \left\langle e^\mu\right\rangle_0,\ \ \ \mu\in (\mathrm{PV}(Y)\otimes H)[\![u]\!]\] where \(\left\langle-\right\rangle_0\) denote the genus zero correlation functions which is a graded symmetric function on \(H[\![u]\!]\), and prove that \(I_Y^ H\) satisfies the classical master equation \[QI^ H_Y +\frac{1}{2}\{I^ H_Y , I^ H_Y\}_{\mathrm{BV}}= 0, \ \ \ Q = \bar\partial + u\partial.\] On the stationary sector where \(Q\) is effectively zero this result gives the commuting observables. For example when \(H = \mathbb{C}\) and \(\left\langle-\right\rangle_0\) comes from the pure gravity, this construction reduces to the classical BCOV theory as described in [loc. cit.].