The A-genus as a projective volume form on the derived loop space

DOI10.1007/S11040-018-9269-1MaRDI QIDQ1664460zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Ryan E. Grady

Publication date 27 August 2018

Published in Mathematical Physics, Analysis and Geometry (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1211.6816

zbMATH Keywords

$\hat{A}$-genus$L_{\infty}$ spaceBatalin-Vilkovisky (BV) theoryderived geometryderived stackloop spaceone-dimensional sigma modelprojective volume formquantization

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Stacks and moduli problems (14D23) Deformation quantization, star products (53D55) Topological quantum field theories (aspects of differential topology) (57R56) Quantization in field theory; cohomological methods (81T70)

Abstract: In the present work, we extend our previous work with Gwilliam by realizing $hatA(X)$ as the projective volume form associated to the BV operator in our quanitization of a one-dimensional sigma model. We also discuss the associated integration/expectation map. We work in the formalism of $L_{i}nfty$ spaces, objects of which are computationally convenient presentations for derived stacks. Both smooth and complex geometry embed into $L_{i}nfty$ spaces and we specialize our results in both of these cases.

Review text

Taking the factorization algebra approach of Costello to perturbative quantum field theory, the author collaborating with Gwilliam worked out a one-loop quantization of a one-dimensional sigma model with target the cotangent bundle $T^{\ast}X$ of a manifold $X$, identifying the partition function as the $\hat{A}$-genus $\hat{A}\left( X\right) $. In this paper, the author working in the $L_{\infty}$ space formalism shows that for a complex manifold $X$, the one-loop quantization determines a projective volume form $\overline {\mathrm{dVol}}_{S^{1}}$ on the $L_{\infty}$ space $\widehat{\mathcal{L}_{dR}X}$ such that $\int_{\widehat{\mathcal{L}_{dR}X}}\alpha\overline{\mathrm{dVol}}_{S^{1}}=k\int_{X}\alpha\hat{A}\left( X\right) $ for a nonzero constant $k$ and all holomorphic differential forms $\alpha$. A variant of this result is also obtained for the smooth case.

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