English

Tropical quantum field theory, mirror polyvector fields, and multiplicities of tropical curves

Algebraic Geometry 2022-01-27 v2 High Energy Physics - Theory Combinatorics

Abstract

We introduce algebraic structures on the polyvector fields of an algebraic torus that serve to compute multiplicities in tropical and log Gromov-Witten theory while also connecting to the mirror symmetry dual deformation theory of complex structures. Most notably these structures include a tropical quantum field theory and an LL_{\infty}-structure. The latter is an instance of Getzler's gravity algebra, and the l2l_2-bracket is a restriction of the Schouten-Nijenhuis bracket. We explain the relationship to string topology in the appendix (thanks to Janko Latschev).

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@article{arxiv.1902.07183,
  title  = {Tropical quantum field theory, mirror polyvector fields, and multiplicities of tropical curves},
  author = {Travis Mandel and Helge Ruddat},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1902.07183},
  year   = {2022}
}

Comments

Intro rewritten; improved definition of Tropical QFT; corrected algebraic characterization of TrQFT (Theorem 3.6); added appendix on relation to string topology; various other improvements; 37 pages; comments welcome!