Chiral differential operators on supermanifolds

DOI10.1007/S00209-011-0930-7zbMATH Open1270.17014arXiv1009.5479OpenAlexW2033222719MaRDI QIDQ455636FDOQ455636

Authors: Pokman Cheung 

Publication date: 22 October 2012

Published in: Mathematische Zeitschrift (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: The first part of this paper provides a new formulation of chiral differential operators (CDOs) in terms of global geometric quantities. The main result is a recipe to define all sheaves of CDOs on a smooth cs-manifold; its ingredients consist of an affine connection and an even 3-form that trivializes the first Pontrjagin form. With the connection fixed, two suitable 3-forms define isomorphic sheaves of CDOs if and only if their difference is exact. Moreover, conformal structures are in one-to-one correspondence with even 1-forms that trivialize the first Chern form. Applying our work in the first part, we construct what may be called "chiral Dolbeault complexes" of a complex manifold M, and analyze conditions under which these differential vertex superalgebras admit compatible conformal structures or extra gradings (fermion numbers). When M is compact, their cohomology computes (in various cases) the Witten genus, the two-variable elliptic genus and a spin-c version of the Witten genus. This part contains some new results as well as provides a geometric formulation of certain known facts from the study of holomorphic CDOs and sigma models.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1009.5479

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zbMATH Keywords

cohomologysuperalgebrachiral differential operatorcs-manifoldWitten genus

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) Two-dimensional field theories, conformal field theories, etc. in quantum mechanics (81T40)

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