English

Trace maps on chiral Clifford algebras for the rank two fermionic vertex operator superalgebra

Functional Analysis 2026-08-03 v1

Abstract

For a holomorphic vector bundle FF of rank rr on a smooth Riemann surface XX we construct a trace map on the chiral homology of the chiral Clifford algebra \CE\CE attached to the purely odd bundle E=Π(FFωX)E=\Pi(F\oplus F^\vee\otimes\omega_X). 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 βiF \beta_i\in F, γjFωX\gamma^j\in F^\vee\otimes\omega_X. 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 \CE\CE. Using the Batalin-Vilkovisky (BV) formalism together with Feynman diagrams we prove that the resulting trace map \Trch:(\sC~ch(X,\CE)\sQ,\dch\CE)(\OBV,\DBV) \Trch : \bigl(\widetilde\sC^{\ch}(X,\CE)_{\sQ},\, \dch_{\CE}\bigr)\longrightarrow (\OBV,-\DBV) 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 \DBV\DBV, the graded Leibniz rule, d2=0d^2=0 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 FF and along the moduli of the curve XX.

Keywords

Cite

@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}
}