Supersymmetry and cohomology of graph complexes
Abstract
This is preprint HAL-00429963 (2009). I describe a combinatorial construction of the cohomology classes in compactified moduli spaces of curves starting from the following data: an odd derivation , whose square is non-zero in general, , acting on a -graded associative algebra with odd scalar product. The constructed cocycles were first described in the theorem 2 in the author's paper "Noncommmutative Batalin-Vilkovisky geometry and Matrix integrals". Comptes Rendus Mathematique, 348, pp. 359-362, arXiv:0912.5484 , preprint HAL-00102085 (09/2006). By the theorem 3 from loc.cit. the family of the cohomology classes obtained in the case of the algebra and the derivation coincided with the generating function of products of classes. This was the first nontrivial computation of categorical Gromov-Witten invariants of higher genus. The result matched with the mirror symmetry prediction, i.e. with the classical (non-categorical) Gromov-Witten descendent invariants of a point for all genus. As a byproduct of that computation a new combinatorial formula for products of -classes in the cohomology is written out.
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@article{arxiv.1803.11549,
title = {Supersymmetry and cohomology of graph complexes},
author = {Serguei Barannikov},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1803.11549},
year = {2018}
}
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typos corrected