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Open-closed Deligne-Mumford field theories: construction

Symplectic Geometry 2026-05-06 v1 Algebraic Geometry Algebraic Topology

Abstract

Open-closed Deligne--Mumford field theories are chain-level field theories based on moduli spaces of stable curves with boundary. We associate to a relatively spin embedded Lagrangian L(X,ω)L \subset (X,\omega) such an open-closed DMFT. It extends the Fukaya AA_\infty algebra to curves of arbitrarily high genus and with arbitrarily many boundary components and is unique up to homotopy. This is the first step in proving Kontsevich's conjecture that the Fukaya category determines the Gromov--Witten invariants of XX, following a strategy delineated by Costello.

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@article{arxiv.2605.03521,
  title  = {Open-closed Deligne-Mumford field theories: construction},
  author = {Amanda Hirschi and Kai Hugtenburg},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2605.03521},
  year   = {2026}
}

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67 pages, second part, comments welcome!