Deformation theory of Cohomological Field Theories

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Autori principali: Dotsenko, Vladimir, Shadrin, Sergey, Vaintrob, Arkady, Vallette, Bruno
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author Dotsenko, Vladimir
Shadrin, Sergey
Vaintrob, Arkady
Vallette, Bruno
author_facet Dotsenko, Vladimir
Shadrin, Sergey
Vaintrob, Arkady
Vallette, Bruno
contents We develop the deformation theory of cohomological field theories (CohFTs), which is done as a special case of a general deformation theory of morphisms of modular operads. This leads us to introduce two new natural extensions of the notion of a CohFT: homotopical (necessary to structure chain-level Gromov--Witten invariants) and quantum (with examples found in the works of Buryak--Rossi on integrable systems). We introduce a new version of Kontsevich's graph complex, enriched with tautological classes on the moduli spaces of stable curves. We use it to study a new universal deformation group which acts naturally on the moduli spaces of quantum homotopy CohFTs, by methods due to Merkulov--Willwacher. This group is shown to contain both the prounipotent Grothendieck--Teichmüller group and the Givental group.
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spellingShingle Deformation theory of Cohomological Field Theories
Dotsenko, Vladimir
Shadrin, Sergey
Vaintrob, Arkady
Vallette, Bruno
Algebraic Geometry
Mathematical Physics
Quantum Algebra
18M85, 18G85, 18M70, 53D55, 14H10, 53D45
We develop the deformation theory of cohomological field theories (CohFTs), which is done as a special case of a general deformation theory of morphisms of modular operads. This leads us to introduce two new natural extensions of the notion of a CohFT: homotopical (necessary to structure chain-level Gromov--Witten invariants) and quantum (with examples found in the works of Buryak--Rossi on integrable systems). We introduce a new version of Kontsevich's graph complex, enriched with tautological classes on the moduli spaces of stable curves. We use it to study a new universal deformation group which acts naturally on the moduli spaces of quantum homotopy CohFTs, by methods due to Merkulov--Willwacher. This group is shown to contain both the prounipotent Grothendieck--Teichmüller group and the Givental group.
title Deformation theory of Cohomological Field Theories
topic Algebraic Geometry
Mathematical Physics
Quantum Algebra
18M85, 18G85, 18M70, 53D55, 14H10, 53D45
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.01649