Mathematics in and out of String Theory

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Authors Subhashis Nag

Publication date 16 August 1999

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/alg-geom/9512010

zbMATH Keywords

Mumford isomorphism, Quillen metricTeichmüller space, Polyakov form

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Moduli of Riemann surfaces, Teichmüller theory (complex-analytic aspects in several variables) (32G15) Applications of deformations of analytic structures to the sciences (32G81) Determinants and determinant bundles, analytic torsion (58J52) String and superstring theories; other extended objects (e.g., branes) in quantum field theory (81T30)

Abstract: We first give an exposition of how the Polyakov path integral for the bosonic string produces a natural mapping class group invariant measure, $d(Poly)$, on the Teichm"uller space of Riemann surfaces of each fixed genus. The description of $d(Poly)$ via the Mumford isomorphisms for determinant bundles over Teichm"uller space is also explained. We then report on our recent results with I.Biswas and D.Sullivan, where we succeed in coherently fitting together this Polyakov-Mumford construction over the universal direct limit, $T_{i}nfty$, of all the finite genus Teichm"uller spaces. The virtual automorphism group of the fundamental group of a compact surface (of arbitrary genus $g>1$) acts by automorphisms on $T_{i}nfty$ as the ``commensurability mapping class group. Our entire construction is equivariant with respect to this new modular group.

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