Dispersionless integrable hierarchy via Kodaira-Spencer gravity

DOI10.1007/S00220-020-03809-XMaRDI QIDQ2200878zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Weiqiang He, Si Li, Xinxing Tang, Philsang Yoo

Publication date 23 September 2020

Published in Communications in Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1910.05665

dispersionless integrable hierarchy Kodaira-Spencer gravity topological field theory

Calabi-Yau manifolds (algebro-geometric aspects) (14J32) Completely integrable infinite-dimensional Hamiltonian and Lagrangian systems, integration methods, integrability tests, integrable hierarchies (KdV, KP, Toda, etc.) (37K10) Phase-space methods including Wigner distributions, etc. applied to problems in quantum mechanics (81S30) String and superstring theories; other extended objects (e.g., branes) in quantum field theory (81T30) Topological field theories in quantum mechanics (81T45) Anomalies in quantum field theory (81T50) Gravitational interaction in quantum theory (81V17)

Abstract: We explain how dispersionless integrable hierarchy in 2d topological field theory arises from the Kodaira-Spencer gravity (BCOV theory). The infinitely many commuting Hamiltonians are given by the current observables associated to the infinite abelian symmetries of the Kodaira-Spencer gravity. We describe a BV framework of effective field theories that leads to the B-model interpretation of dispersionless integrable hierarchy.

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After collecting geometric basics on field theories in the Batalin-Vilkovisky (BV) formalism the authors explain the connection between dispersionless integrable hierarchy in 2d topological field theory and the Kodaira-Spencer gravity (BCOV theory). The authors prove, in particular, that the infinitely many commutating Hamiltonians arise naturally from the infinite abelian symmetries of Kodaira-Spencer gravity extended to include gravitational descendants as formulated in [\textit{K. Costello} and \textit{S. Li}, ``Quantum BCOV theory on Calabi-Yau manifolds and the higher genus B-model, Preprint, \url{arXiv:1201.4501}]. Let \(H\) be a finite-dimensional graded vector space, which is the small phase space of a 2d topological field theory. The big phase space is \(H[\![u]\!]\) where \(u\) is a formal variable representing the gravitational descendant. The fields in the BCOV theory are given by the cochain complex \(\mathrm{PV}(Y )[\![u]\!]\) where \(Y\) is a Calabi-Yau manifold and \(\mathrm{PV}\) is the space of smooth polyvector fields. The authors define the classical BCOV interaction \(I_Y^ H\) by \[I^ H_Y (\mu)=\mathrm{Tr} \left\langle e^\mu\right\rangle_0,\ \ \ \mu\in (\mathrm{PV}(Y)\otimes H)[\![u]\!]\] where \(\left\langle-\right\rangle_0\) denote the genus zero correlation functions which is a graded symmetric function on \(H[\![u]\!]\), and prove that \(I_Y^ H\) satisfies the classical master equation \[QI^ H_Y +\frac{1}{2}\{I^ H_Y , I^ H_Y\}_{\mathrm{BV}}= 0, \ \ \ Q = \bar\partial + u\partial.\] On the stationary sector where \(Q\) is effectively zero this result gives the commuting observables. For example when \(H = \mathbb{C}\) and \(\left\langle-\right\rangle_0\) comes from the pure gravity, this construction reduces to the classical BCOV theory as described in [loc. cit.].

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