Singular vectors and topological theories from Virasoro constraints via the Kontsevich-Miwa transform

DOI10.1016/0550-3213(93)90135-CMaRDI QIDQ688245zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors A. M. Semikhatov, Beatriz Gato-Rivera

Publication date 28 November 1993

Published in Nuclear Physics B (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9212113

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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)

Abstract: We use the Kontsevich-Miwa transform to relate the different pictures describing matter coupled to topological gravity in two dimensions: topological theories, Virasoro constraints on integrable hierarchies, and a DDK-type formalism. With the help of the Kontsevich-Miwa transform, we solve the Virasoro constraints on the KP hierarchy in terms of minimal models dressed with a (free) Liouville-like scalar. The dressing prescription originates in a topological (twisted N=2) theory. The Virasoro constraints are thus related to essentially the N=2 null state decoupling equations. The N=2 generators are constructed out of matter, the `Liouville' scalar, and $c=-2$ ghosts. By a `dual' construction involving the reparametrization $c=-26$ ghosts, the DDK dressing prescription is reproduced from the N=2 symmetry. As a by-product we thus observe that there are two ways to dress arbitrary $dleq1$ or $dgeq25$ matter theory, that allow its embedding into a topological theory. By th e Kontsevich-Miwa transform, which introduces an infinite set of `time' variables $t_r$, the equations ensuring the vanishing of correlators that involve BRST-exact primary states, factorize through the Virasoro generators expressed in terms of the $t_r$. The background charge of these Virasoro generators is determined by the topological central charge.

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• On the relation between open and closed topological strings
• Representations of infinite-dimensional algebras and conformal field theory: From \(N=2\) to \(\widehat{sl} (2|1)\)
• \(d\leq 1\cup d\geq 25\) and constrained KP hierarchy from BRST variance in the \(c\neq 3\) topological algebra
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• Chiral determinant formulae and subsingular vectors for the \(N=2\) superconformal algebras
• Determinant formula for the topological N=2 superconformal algebra.
• Transmutations between singular and subsingular vectors of the N=2 superconformal algebras.
• Families of singular and subsingular vectors of the topological N=2 superconformal algebra
• The even and the odd spectral flows on the N=2 superconformal algebras
• Topological matter, mirror symmetry and non-critical (super)strings

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