Mixed anomalies of chiral algebras compactified to smooth quasi-projective surfaces

Abstract

Some time ago, the chiral algebra theory of Beilinson-Drinfeld was expected to play a central role in the convergence of divergence in mathematical physics of superstring theory for quantization of gauge theory and gravity. Naively, this algebra plays an important role in a holomorphic conformal field theory with a non-negative integer graded conformal dimension, whose target space does not necessarily have the vanishing first Chern class. This algebra has two definitions until now: one is that by Malikov-Schechtman-Vaintrob by gluing affine patches, and the other is that of Kapranov-Vasserot by gluing the formal loop spaces. I will use the new definition of Nekrasov by simplifying Malikov-Schechtman-Vaintrob in order to compute the obstruction classes of gerbes of chiral differential operators. In this paper, I will examine the two independent Ans$\ddot{a}$tze (or working hypotheses) of Witten's $\mathcal{N}=(0,2)$ heterotic strings and Nekrasov's generalized complex geometry, after Hitchin and Gualtieri, are consistent in the case of ${\mathbb{CP}}^2$, which has $3$ affine patches and is expected to have the "first Pontryagin anomaly". I also scrutinized the physical meanings of $2$ dimensional toric Fano manifolds, or rather toric del Pezzo surfaces, obtained by blowing up the non-colinear $1,2,3$ points of ${\mathbb{CP}}^2$. The obstruction classes of gerbes of them coincide with the second Chern characters obtained by the Riemann-Roch theorem and in particular vanishes for $1$ point blowup, which means that one of the gravitational anomalies vanishes for a non-Calabi-Yau manifold compactification. The future direction towards the geometric Langlands program is also discussed in the last section.

Ph.D. dissertation at the University of Tokyo, 2007, v2. changed the arXiv address of reference, v3. eliminated some typos and references, v4. introduced AMS format of LaTeX, v5. cleaned signs, fonts, and formats with polite calculations

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