Chiral de Rham complex

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1998-03-11

arxiv.org/abs/math/9803041v7

Commun.Math.Phys. 204 (1999) 439-473

Mathematics

Algebraic Geometry

37 pages, Tex. Completed and revised version, to appear in CMP (1999)

Scientific paper

10.1007/s002200050653

The aim of this note is to define certain sheaves of vertex algebras on smooth manifolds. For each smooth complex algebraic (or analytic) manifold $X$, we construct a sheaf $\Omega^{ch}_X$, called the {\bf chiral de Rham complex} of $X$. It is a sheaf of vertex algebras in the Zarisky (or classical) topology, It comes equipped with a $\BZ$-grading by {\it fermionic charge}, and the {\it chiral de Rham differential} $d_{DR}^{ch}$, which is an endomorphism of degree 1 such that $(d_{DR}^{ch})^2=0$. One has a canonical embedding of the usual de Rham complex $(\Omega_X, d_{DR})\hra (\Omega_X^{ch}, d_{DR}^{ch})$ which is a quasiisomorphism. If $X$ is Calabi-Yau then this sheaf admits an N=2 supersymmetry. For some $X$ (for example, for curves or for the flag spaces $G/B$), one can construct also a purely even analogue of this sheaf, a {\it chiral structure sheaf} $\CO^{ch}_X$. For the projective line, the space of global sections of the last sheaf is the irreducible vacuum $\hsl(2)$-module on the critical level.

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