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Deformation Theory Seminar

Wednesday, May 2, 2018 - 2:00pm

Kantaro Ohmori

IAS Princeton

Location

University of Pennsylvania

DRL 4C2

Consistent decompositions of moduli spaces of Riemann surfaces yield homotopy algebras such as  A_\infinity or L_\infinity algebras,  that essentially define string field theories (SFTs), supposed to be a non-perturbative definition of the string theory. In the case of open Riemann surfaces, the Strebel differential defines the associative product called Witten’s star-product.

In this talk I would like to describe an attempt to generalize this well-known construction to the case of super-Riemann surfaces and supermoduli of those.

 

Unlike the case of usual Riemann surfaces, there cannot be an associative product, hence one needs to introduce higher products to construct the desired A_\infty structure.

In this talk I only construct the 2-ary and 3-ary product, and higher products remain to be constructed.

The desired A_\infty structure is expected to be isomorphic to A_\infty structures found by others using other methods in the context of superstring field theory.

 

reference: https://arxiv.org/abs/1703.08214