Elliptic trace map on chiral algebras

Abstract: Trace map on deformation quantized algebra leads to the algebraic index theorem. We investigate a two dimensional chiral analogue of the algebraic index theorem via the theory of chiral algebras developed by Beilinson and Drinfeld. We construct a trace map on the elliptic chiral homology of the free beta-gamma system using the BV quantization framework. As an example, we compute the trace evaluated on the unit constant chiral chain and obtain the formal Witten genus in the Lie algebra cohomology. This talk is based on joint work with Si Li.

algebraic geometrydifferential geometryquantum algebrasymplectic geometry

Audience: researchers in the topic

Boston University Geometry/Physics Seminar

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