SEMI-INFINITE FORMS AND TOPOLOGICAL VERTEX OPERATOR ALGEBRAS

DOI10.1142/S0219199700000104MaRDI QIDQ4513340zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Yi-Zhi Huang, Wenhua Zhao

Publication date 14 November 2000

Published in Communications in Contemporary Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/9903014

zbMATH Keywords

moduli spacessemi-infinite formspartial operadgenus-zero Riemann surfacesLian-Zukerman's conjecturetopological chiral algebratopological vertex operator algebras

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Vertex operators; vertex operator algebras and related structures (17B69) Infinite-dimensional groups and algebras motivated by physics, including Virasoro, Kac-Moody, (W)-algebras and other current algebras and their representations (81R10)

Abstract: Semi-infinite forms on the moduli spaces of genus-zero Riemann surfaces with punctures and local coordinates are introduced. A partial operad for semi-infinite forms is constructed. Using semi-infinite forms and motivated by a partial suboperad of the partial operad for semi-infinite forms, topological vertex partial operads of type $k<0$ and strong topological vertex partial operads of type $k<0$ are constructed. It is proved that the category of (locally-)grading-restricted (strong) topological vertex operator algebras of type $k<0$ and the category of (weakly) meromorphic $BbbZimesBbbZ$-graded algebras over the (strong) topological vertex partial operad of type k are isomorphic. As an application of this isomorphism theorem, the following conjecture of Lian-Zuckerman and Kimura-Voronov-Zuckerman is proved: A strong topological vertex operator algebra gives a homotopy Gerstenhaber algebra. These results hold in particular for the tensor product of the moonshine module vertex operator algebra, the vertex algebra constructed {from} a rank 2 Lorentz lattice and the ghost vertex operator algebra, studied in detail first by Lian and Zuckerman.

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