Papers:

I am currently writing up a paper explaining fundamental features of open topological SFT: The main result relates BV algebras built from i) the moduli space of Riemann surfaces with corners, free boundaries decorated with objects of a cyclic A-infinity category C, ii) the open SFT BV-algebra built from the cyclic cohomology of C, iii) the associated gauge theories under the LQT theorem and iv) the moduli space of metric graphs. 

This generalizes and puts into a conceptual context an observation of Kontsevich how a cyclic A-infinity algebra produces classes on M_(g,n). Further I explain the analogy to closed topological SFT, as described by Sen-Zwiebach, Costello, Căldăraru-Tu, which lead to the definition of Categorical Enumerative Invariants . Instances of closed respectively open topological SFT are BCOV theory respectively holomorphic Chern-Simons.

I hope to put this on the arxiv by beginning of 2024.

Research Talks:

10.1.24: Student Talk, Winter School in Mathematical Physics, SwissMap: Open Topological String Field Theory and the Loday-Quillen-Tsygan Theorem 

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