Modular envelopes, OSFT and nonsymmetric (non-) modular operads

DOI10.4171/JNCG/248zbMATH Open1375.81205arXiv1410.3414MaRDI QIDQ740108FDOQ740108

Authors: Martin Markl 

Publication date: 12 August 2016

Published in: Journal of Noncommutative Geometry (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Our aim is to introduce and advocate non-$Sigma$ (non-symmetric) modular operads. While ordinary modular operads were inspired by the structure of the moduli space of stable complex curves, non-$Sigma$ modular operads model surfaces with open strings outputs. An immediate application of our theory is a short proof that the modular envelope of the associative operad is the linearization of the terminal operad in the category of non-$Sigma$ modular operads. This gives a succinct description of this object that plays an important role in open string field theory. We also sketch further perspectives of the presented approach.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1410.3414

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zbMATH Keywords

surfaceopen stringmodular completionterminal object

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Relationships between algebraic curves and physics (14H81) Moduli of Riemann surfaces, Teichmüller theory (complex-analytic aspects in several variables) (32G15) String and superstring theories; other extended objects (e.g., branes) in quantum field theory (81T30)

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