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Minimal models for minimal BCOV theories

Mathematical Physics 2024-10-16 v1 High Energy Physics - Theory math.MP Quantum Algebra

Abstract

Minimal BCOV theory is a classical field theory which describes a subclass of deformations of the category of perfect complexes on a Calabi-Yau variety. We compute minimal models for LL_\infty-algebras describing minimal BCOV theory and its variants on flat space and find that they give certain LL_\infty-extensions of the infinite-dimensional simple Lie superalgebra SHO(dd)\operatorname{SHO}(d|d). We apply this computation to compare an sl2\mathfrak{sl}_2 action on an odd two-dimensional central extension of SHO(33)\operatorname{SHO}(3|3) first discovered by Kac to an action of sl2\mathfrak{sl}_2 on a variant of minimal BCOV theory previously found by the authors.

Cite

@article{arxiv.2410.11837,
  title  = {Minimal models for minimal BCOV theories},
  author = {Surya Raghavendran and Philsang Yoo},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2410.11837},
  year   = {2024}
}

Comments

18 pages, preliminary version, comments welcome!

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