Trace maps on chiral Clifford algebras for the rank two fermionic vertex operator superalgebra
Abstract
For a holomorphic vector bundle of rank on a smooth Riemann surface we construct a trace map on the chiral homology of the chiral Clifford algebra attached to the purely odd bundle . It is the chiral-algebraic realization of the rank two fermionic vertex operator superalgebra. The free-fermion (bc-type) conformal field theory built from a dual pair of odd fields , . We give a complete construction of this vertex operator superalgebra, its associated vertex superalgebra bundle, and the isomorphism between the latter's chiral algebra and the chiral envelope . Using the Batalin-Vilkovisky (BV) formalism together with Feynman diagrams we prove that the resulting trace map is a chain map satisfying a generalized quantum master equation and is a quasi-isomorphism, generalizing to the odd/Clifford setting the trace map on chiral Weyl algebras constructed by Gui for symplectic bosons. We establish existence, homotopy uniqueness, and functoriality (including explicit metric-independence up to chain homotopy) of the trace map, prove cyclicity of the relevant supertrace, and verify nilpotency of , the graded Leibniz rule, for every differential introduced. As an application we compute the trace map on a modified affine current and on a modified energy-momentum tensor, recovering, purely algebraically from the chiral chain complex, Fay's classical formulas for the variation of the fermionic (Ray-Singer) analytic torsion along the moduli of the bundle and along the moduli of the curve .
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@article{arxiv.2608.02065,
title = {Trace maps on chiral Clifford algebras for the rank two fermionic vertex operator superalgebra},
author = {A. Zuevsky},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2608.02065},
year = {2026}
}