arXiv Open Access 2004

Topological conformal field theories and Calabi-Yau categories

Kevin J. Costello
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Abstrak

This is the first of two papers which construct a purely algebraic counterpart to the theory of Gromov-Witten invariants (at all genera). These Gromov-Witten type invariants depend on a Calabi-Yau A-infinity category, which plays the role of the target in ordinary Gromov-Witten theory. When we use an appropriate A-infinity version of the derived category of coherent sheaves on a Calabi-Yau variety, this constructs the B model at all genera. When the Fukaya category of a compact symplectic manifold X is used, it is shown, under certain assumptions, that the usual Gromov-Witten invariants are recovered. The assumptions are that a good theory of open-closed Gromov-Witten invariants exists for X, and that the natural map from the Hochschild homology of the Fukaya category of X to the ordinary homology of X is an isomorphism.

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Kevin J. Costello

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Costello, K.J. (2004). Topological conformal field theories and Calabi-Yau categories. https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0412149

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