Noncommutative Batalin-Vilkovisky geometry and matrix integrals (Q964422)

Let \(V\) be a supervector space equipped with an even symmetric inner product \(B\). In a previous paper [Int. Math. Res. Not. 2007, No. 19, Article ID rnm075, 31 p. (2007; Zbl 1135.18006)], the author defined a one-to-one correspondence between quantum supergraded \(A_\infty\)-strutures on \(V\) and solutions \(S\) of a quantum master equation naturally associated to the pair \((V,B)\). In the paper under review, the author gives the asymptotic expansion of a matrix integral associated to any such solution \(S\). To be more explicit, he proves that this expansion defines the generating series of a partition function \(c_S: G\mapsto c_S(G)\) associated to \(S\), where \(G\) runs over ribbon graphs. In the case where \(V\) is a one-dimensional supervector space, the author retrieves a supergraded version of \textit{M. Kontsevich}'s matrix integral expansion [Commun. Math. Phys. 147, No. 1, 1--23 (1992; Zbl 0756.35081)].