ON THE LANDAU-GINZBURG REALIZATION OF TOPOLOGICAL GRAVITIES

Authors
Citation
W. Lerche et A. Sevrin, ON THE LANDAU-GINZBURG REALIZATION OF TOPOLOGICAL GRAVITIES, Nuclear physics. B, 428(1-2), 1994, pp. 259-281
Citations number
65
Categorie Soggetti
Physics, Nuclear
Journal title
ISSN journal
05503213
Volume
428
Issue
1-2
Year of publication
1994
Pages
259 - 281
Database
ISI
SICI code
0550-3213(1994)428:1-2<259:OTLROT>2.0.ZU;2-O
Abstract
We study the equivariant cohomology of a class of multi-field topologi cal Landau-Ginzburg models, and find that such systems carry intrinsic information about W-gravity. As a result, we can construct the gravit ational chiral ring in terms of LG polynomials. We find, in particular , that the spectrum of such theories seems to be richer than so far ex pected. We also briefly discuss the BRST operator for non-linear topol ogical W-gravity.