The coupling of Poisson sigma models to topological backgrounds

DOI10.1007/JHEP12(2016)043MaRDI QIDQ1636629zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Dario Rosa

Publication date 12 June 2018

Published in Journal of High Energy Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1610.05659

zbMATH Keywords

BRST quantizationdifferential and algebraic geometrysigma modelstopological field theories

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Topological field theories in quantum mechanics (81T45) Quantization of the gravitational field (83C45) Relativistic cosmology (83F05)

Abstract: We extend the coupling to the topological backgrounds, recently worked out for the 2-dimensional BF-model, to the most general Poisson sigma models. The coupling involves the choice of a Casimir function on the target manifold and modifies the BRST transformations. This in turn induces a change in the BRST cohomology of the resulting theory. The observables of the coupled theory are analyzed and their geometrical interpretation is given. We finally couple the theory to 2-dimensional topological gravity: this is the first step to study a topological string theory in propagation on a Poisson manifold. As an application, we show that the gauge-fixed vectorial supersymmetry of the Poisson sigma models has a natural explanation in terms of the theory coupled to topological gravity.

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