Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Theory
Scientific paper
1995-10-02
Nucl.Phys. B462 (1996) 571-599
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Theory
Uses harvmac, 33 pages (big) or 20 pages (little)
Scientific paper
10.1016/0550-3213(95)00004-6
We point out that averages of equivariant observables of 2D topological gravity are not globally defined forms on moduli space, when one uses the functional measure corresponding to the formulation of the theory as a 2D superconformal model. This is shown to be a consequence of the existence of the Gribov horizon {\it and} of the dependence of the observables on derivatives of the super-ghost field. By requiring the absence of global BRS anomalies, it is nevertheless possible to associate global forms to correlators of observables by resorting to the \v{C}ech-De Rham notion of form cohomology. To this end, we derive and solve the ``descent'' of local Ward identities which characterize the functional measure. We obtain in this way an explicit expression for the \v{C}ech-De Rham cocycles corresponding to arbitrary correlators of observables. This provides the way to compute and understand contact terms in string theory from first principles.
Becchi Carlo M.
Imbimbo Camillo
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