BCOV theory via Givental group action on cohomological field theories

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Publication date 2009
Journal Moscow Mathematical Journal
Volume | Issue number 9 | 2
Pages (from-to) 411-429
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  • Faculty of Science (FNWI) - Korteweg-de Vries Institute for Mathematics (KdVI)
Abstract In a previous paper, Losev, the author, and Shneiberg constructed a full descendant potential associated to an arbitrary cyclic Hodge dGBV algebra. This contruction extended the construction of Barannikov and Kontsevich of solution of the WDVV equation, based on the earlier paper of Bershadsky, Cecotti, Ooguri, and Vafa.
In the present paper, we give an interpretation of this full descendant potential in terms of Givental group action on cohomological field theories. In particular, the fact that it satisfies all tautological equations becomes a trivial observation.
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