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Two-dimensional topological gravity and equivariant cohomology

Ezra Getzler

hep-tharXiv:hep-th/9305013

Abstract

In this paper, we examine the analogy between topological string theory and equivariant cohomology. We also show that the equivariant cohomology of a topological conformal field theory carries a certain algebraic structure, which we call a gravity algebra. (Error on page 9 corrected: BRS current contains total derivatives.)

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