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Deformation theory of Cohomological Field Theories

Authors :
Dotsenko, Vladimir
Shadrin, Sergey
Vaintrob, Arkady
Vallette, Bruno
Source :
J. Reine Angew. Math. 809 (2024), 91-157
Publication Year :
2020

Abstract

We develop the deformation theory of cohomological field theories (CohFTs), which is done as a special case of a general deformation theory of morphisms of modular operads. This leads us to introduce two new natural extensions of the notion of a CohFT: homotopical (necessary to structure chain-level Gromov--Witten invariants) and quantum (with examples found in the works of Buryak--Rossi on integrable systems). We introduce a new version of Kontsevich's graph complex, enriched with tautological classes on the moduli spaces of stable curves. We use it to study a new universal deformation group which acts naturally on the moduli spaces of quantum homotopy CohFTs, by methods due to Merkulov--Willwacher. This group is shown to contain both the prounipotent Grothendieck--Teichm\"uller group and the Givental group.<br />Comment: submitted version, 57 pages, abstract and introduction rewritten

Details

Database :
arXiv
Journal :
J. Reine Angew. Math. 809 (2024), 91-157
Publication Type :
Report
Accession number :
edsarx.2006.01649
Document Type :
Working Paper
Full Text :
https://doi.org/10.1515/crelle-2023-0098