On the Semi-Relative Condition for Closed (TOPOLOGICAL) Strings

Details On the Semi-Relative Condition for Closed (TOPOLOGICAL) Strings On the Semi-Relative Condition for Closed (TOPOLOGICAL) Strings

1993-11-17

arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9311097v1

Phys.Lett.B322:79-83,1994

Physics

High Energy Physics

High Energy Physics - Theory

10 pages, harvmac, CERN-TH-7084/93, GEF-TH-21/1993

Scientific paper

10.1016/0370-2693(94)90493-6

We provide a simple lagrangian interpretation of the meaning of the $b_0^-$ semi-relative condition in closed string theory. Namely, we show how the semi-relative condition is equivalent to the requirement that physical operators be cohomology classes of the BRS operators acting on the space of local fields {\it covariant} under world-sheet reparametrizations. States trivial in the absolute BRS cohomology but not in the semi-relative one are explicitly seen to correspond to BRS variations of operators which are not globally defined world-sheet tensors. We derive the covariant expressions for the observables of topological gravity. We use them to prove a formula that equates the expectation value of the gravitational descendant of ghost number 4 to the integral over the moduli space of the Weil-Peterson K\"ahler form.

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