Krichever-Novikov formulation of topological conformal field theory

DOI10.1007/BF00398824zbMath0753.30032MaRDI QIDQ1184557

Gautam Sengupta, Jnanadeva Maharana, Alok Kumar

Publication date: 28 June 1992

Published in: Letters in Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

zbMATH Keywords

Riemann surfacesenergy-momentum tensorVirasoro algebrasuperconformal field theorytopological conformal field theoryBRST-cohomology structureKrichever-Novikov algebraKrichever-Novikov global operator

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Two-dimensional field theories, conformal field theories, etc. in quantum mechanics (81T40) Supersymmetric field theories in quantum mechanics (81T60) Infinite-dimensional groups and algebras motivated by physics, including Virasoro, Kac-Moody, (W)-algebras and other current algebras and their representations (81R10) Riemann surfaces (30F99)

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• Krichever-Novikov algebras for more than two points
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• Topological quantum field theory
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• N=2 SUPERCONFORMAL MODELS AS TOPOLOGICAL FIELD THEORIES