On the extension of a TCFT to the boundary of the moduli space

DOI10.1007/S11005-011-0507-8zbMATH Open1236.14014arXiv1002.2670OpenAlexW2049671689MaRDI QIDQ656992FDOQ656992

Alastair Hamilton

Publication date: 13 January 2012

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

Abstract: The purpose of this paper is to describe an analogue of a construction of Costello in the context of finite-dimensional differential graded Frobenius algebras which produces closed forms on the decorated moduli space of Riemann surfaces. We show that this construction extends to a certain natural compactification of the moduli space which is associated to the modular closure of the associative operad, due to the absence of ultra-violet divergences in the finite-dimensional case. We demonstrate that this construction is equivalent to the "dual construction" of Kontsevich.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1002.2670

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zbMATH Keywords

heat kernelDeligne-Mumford compactificationFrobenius algebramodular operadmoduli space of Riemann surfacestopological conformal field theoryCalabi-Yau elliptic spaceopen topological field theoryorbi-cell complexultra-violet divergence

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of vector bundles and moduli spaces in mathematical physics (twistor theory, instantons, quantum field theory) (14D21) Feynman integrals and graphs; applications of algebraic topology and algebraic geometry (81Q30) Fine and coarse moduli spaces (14D22) Algebraic topology of manifolds (57N65)

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