Two-dimensional topological gravity and equivariant cohomology
High Energy Physics - Theory
2009-10-22 v2 Quantum Algebra
Abstract
In this paper, we examine the analogy between topological string theory and equivariant cohomology. We also show that the equivariant cohomology of a topological conformal field theory carries a certain algebraic structure, which we call a gravity algebra. (Error on page 9 corrected: BRS current contains total derivatives.)
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@article{arxiv.hep-th/9305013,
title = {Two-dimensional topological gravity and equivariant cohomology},
author = {Ezra Getzler},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/9305013},
year = {2009}
}
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18 pages