Schur Q-functions and a Kontsevich-Witten genus
Quantum Algebra
2007-05-23 v1 Algebraic Geometry
Abstract
The Virasoro operations in Witten's theory of two-dimensional topological gravity have a homotopy-theoretic interpretation as endomorphisms of an ordinary cohomology theory with coefficients in a localization of I. Schur's ring \Delta of Q-functions. The resulting theory has many of the features of a vertex operator algebra.
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@article{arxiv.math/9807059,
title = {Schur Q-functions and a Kontsevich-Witten genus},
author = {Jack Morava},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:math/9807059},
year = {2007}
}
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16 pages; http://hopf.math.purdue.edu/