Gerbes of chiral differential operators

DOI10.4310/MRL.2000.v7.n1.a5zbMath0982.17013arXivmath/9906117MaRDI QIDQ1574770

Vassily Gorbounov, Fyodor Malikov, Vadim Schechtman

Publication date: 13 August 2000

Published in: Mathematical Research Letters (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math/9906117

zbMATH Keywords

sheaves of vertex algebrascohomological obstructionsmooth varietiesconformal vertex algebraschiral de Rham algebrachiral structure sheaf

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Virasoro and related algebras (17B68) Two-dimensional field theories, conformal field theories, etc. in quantum mechanics (81T40) Vertex operators; vertex operator algebras and related structures (17B69) de Rham cohomology and algebraic geometry (14F40)

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