Chiral equivariant cohomology II

DOI10.1090/S0002-9947-08-04504-2zbMATH Open1221.17035MaRDI QIDQ3522286FDOQ3522286

Authors Andrew R. Linshaw, Bailin Song, Bong H. Lian 

Publication date 1 September 2008

Published in Transactions of the American Mathematical Society (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0607223

zbMATH Keywords

chiral de Rham complexchiral equivariant cohomology

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Vertex operators; vertex operator algebras and related structures (17B69)

Abstract: This is the second in a series of papers on a new equivariant cohomology that takes values in a vertex algebra. In an earlier paper, the first two authors gave a construction of the cohomology functor on the category of O(sg) algebras. The new cohomology theory can be viewed as a kind of "chiralization of the classical equivariant cohomology, the latter being defined on the category of G^* algebras a la H. Cartan. In this paper, we further develop the chiral theory by first extending it to allow a much larger class of algebras which we call sg[t] algebras. In the geometrical setting, our principal example of an O(sg) algebra is the chiral de Rham complex Q(M) of a G manifold M. There is an interesting subalgebra of Q(M) which does not admit a full O(sg) algebra structure but retains the structure of an sg[t] algebra, enough for us to define its chiral equivariant cohomology. The latter then turns out to have many surprising features that allows us to delineate a number of interesting geometric aspects of the G manifold M, sometimes in ways that are quite different from the classical theory.

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