Gribov problem, contact terms and Čech-De Rham cohomology in 2D topological gravity

DOI10.1016/0550-3213(95)00004-6MaRDI QIDQ1907372zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors C. Imbimbo, C. Becchi

Publication date 20 February 1996

Published in Nuclear Physics B (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9510003

zbMATH Keywords

Cech De Rham cocyclesfunctional measureGribov horizonlocal Ward identity descentmoduli spacestring theory

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Two-dimensional field theories, conformal field theories, etc. in quantum mechanics (81T40) Anomalies in quantum field theory (81T50) Quantization in field theory; cohomological methods (81T70)

Abstract: We point out that averages of equivariant observables of 2D topological gravity are not globally defined forms on moduli space, when one uses the functional measure corresponding to the formulation of the theory as a 2D superconformal model. This is shown to be a consequence of the existence of the Gribov horizon {it and} of the dependence of the observables on derivatives of the super-ghost field. By requiring the absence of global BRS anomalies, it is nevertheless possible to associate global forms to correlators of observables by resorting to the v{C}ech-De Rham notion of form cohomology. To this end, we derive and solve the ``descent of local Ward identities which characterize the functional measure. We obtain in this way an explicit expression for the v{C}ech-De Rham cocycles corresponding to arbitrary correlators of observables. This provides the way to compute and understand contact terms in string theory from first principles.

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