N=2 structures in string theories

DOI10.1063/1.532151zbMATH Open0891.53059arXivhep-th/9507145OpenAlexW2021325223MaRDI QIDQ4378303FDOQ4378303

Authors: José Figueroa-O'Farrill 

Publication date: 6 July 1998

Published in: Journal of Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: The BRST cohomology of any topological conformal field theory admits the structure of a Batalin--Vilkovisky algebra, and string theories are no exception. Let us say that two topological conformal field theories are ``cohomologically equivalent if their BRST cohomologies are isomorphic as Batalin--Vilkovisky algebras. What we show in this paper is that any string theory (regardless of the matter background) is cohomologically equivalent to some twisted N=2 superconformal field theory. We discuss three string theories in detail: the bosonic string, the NSR string and the W_3 string. In each case the way the cohomological equivalence is constructed can be understood as coupling the topological conformal field theory to topological gravity. These results lend further supporting evidence to the conjecture that _any_ topological conformal field theory is cohomologically equivalent to some topologically twisted N=2 superconformal field theory. We end the paper with some comments on different notions of equivalence for topological conformal field theories and this leads to an improved conjecture.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9507145

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zbMATH Keywords

Batalin-Vilkovisky algebrasBRST cohomologytopological gravitystring theoriestopological conformal field theories

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of differential geometry to physics (53Z05) String and superstring theories; other extended objects (e.g., branes) in quantum field theory (81T30) Two-dimensional field theories, conformal field theories, etc. in quantum mechanics (81T40) Quantization in field theory; cohomological methods (81T70)

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