On the Landau-Ginzburg realization of topological gravities.

DOI10.1016/0550-3213(94)90202-XMaRDI QIDQ1967534zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors W. Lerche, Alexander Sevrin

Publication date 6 March 2000

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9403183

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Dynamical systems in other branches of physics (quantum mechanics, general relativity, laser physics) (37N20) Infinite-dimensional groups and algebras motivated by physics, including Virasoro, Kac-Moody, (W)-algebras and other current algebras and their representations (81R10) String and superstring theories; other extended objects (e.g., branes) in quantum field theory (81T30) Quantization in field theory; cohomological methods (81T70)

Abstract: We study the equivariant cohomology of a class of multi-field topological LG models, and find that such systems carry intrinsic information about $W$-gravity. As a result, we can construct the gravitational chiral ring in terms of LG polynomials. We find, in particular, that the spectrum of such theories seems to be richer than so far expected. We also briefly discuss the BRST operator for non-linear topological $W$-gravity.

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