Action of diffeomorphisms
Formulation of the problem
Let be the BV Hamiltonian generating the left shift by elements of ; if is any
function of , then:
The , and are defined similarly. In particular:
With these notations, when and are two even elements of ,
(Even elements are generators of and , and also the generators of and multiplied
by a Grassmann odd parameter.)
The infinitesimal action of diffeomorphisms is generated by the following BV Hamiltonian :
In this section we will construct such that:
It is very easy to construct such if we don’t care about the global symmetries
of . (Something like .) But we will construct a invariant
under the supersymmetries of , i.e. invariant under the right shifts of .
We believe that such an invariant construction has better chance of satisfying the equivariance
conditions of Mikhailov:2016myt,Mikhailov:2016rkp at the quantum level, because supersymmetries restrict quantum corrections.
In particular, the equivariance condition must require that the correspond, in some sense,
to a primary operator.
Comment on gauge transformations
In this Section we discuss vector fields on the factorspace defined by Eq. (24). They are the same as -invariant vector fields on modulo -invariant vertical vector fields. All the formulas here are modulo vertical -invariant vector fields.
Subspaces associated to a pair of pure spinors
We use the notations of Section Subspaces of associated to pure spinors. For and ,
let denote the map:
(Notations of Sec The projector;
this is a direct sum of two completely independent linear maps.)
For a pair we decompose
For example, denotes the component of which belongs to ; the label “split” is because we could not invent any better notation.
:
where we must use a special representative of the cokernel:
Similarly, any (assumed to be both TL and STL) can be decomposed:
Explicitly:
Construction of
The generating function of the infinitesimal worldsheet diffeomorphisms (= vector fields)
, given by Eq. (44), is BV-exact:
The coefficients and satisfy:
Eq. (45) follows from:
Some useful identities
Notice that we have in denominators. At the same time: