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Supersymmetry and cohomology of graph complexes

Quantum Algebra 2018-09-24 v2

Abstract

This is preprint HAL-00429963 (2009). I describe a combinatorial construction of the cohomology classes in compactified moduli spaces of curves Z^IH(Mˉg,n)\widehat{Z}_{I}\in H^{*}(\bar{\mathcal{M}}_{g,n}) starting from the following data: an odd derivation II, whose square is non-zero in general, I20I^{2}\neq 0, acting on a Z/2Z\mathbb{Z}/2\mathbb{Z}-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 Q(N)Q(N) and the derivation I=[Λ,]I=\left[\Lambda,\cdot\right] coincided with the generating function of products of ψ\psi-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 ψ\psi-classes ψi=c1(Tpi)\psi_{i}=c_{1}(T_{p_{i}}^{*}) in the cohomology H(Mˉg,n)H^{*}(\bar{\mathcal{M}}_{g,n}) 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