Open-closed moduli spaces and related algebraic structures

DOI10.1007/S11005-010-0418-0zbMATH Open1201.32009arXiv0709.3874OpenAlexW2100301451MaRDI QIDQ708918FDOQ708918

Authors: Eric Harrelson, Alexander A. Voronov, J. Javier Zúñiga 

Publication date: 15 October 2010

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

Abstract: We set up a Batalin-Vilkovisky Quantum Master Equation for open-closed string theory and show that the corresponding moduli spaces give rise to a solution, a generating function for their fundamental chains. The equation encodes the topological structure of the compactification of the moduli space of bordered Riemann surfaces. The moduli spaces of bordered J-holomorphic curves are expected to satisfy the same equation, and from this viewpoint, our paper treats the case of the target space equal to a point. We also introduce the notion of a symmetric Open-Closed Topological Conformal Field Theory and study the L_infty and A_infty algebraic structures associated to it.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0709.3874

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zbMATH Keywords

quantum master equationBV algebratopological conformal field theoryhomotopy algebrasopen-closed moduli space

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Moduli of Riemann surfaces, Teichmüller theory (complex-analytic aspects in several variables) (32G15) Two-dimensional field theories, conformal field theories, etc. in quantum mechanics (81T40) Applications of deformations of analytic structures to the sciences (32G81)

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