Chiral de Rham complex

Abstract

The aim of this note is to define certain sheaves of vertex algebras on smooth manifolds. For each smooth complex algebraic (or analytic) manifold $X$, we construct a sheaf ${\Omega }_X^{ch}$, called the {\bf chiral de Rham complex} of $X$. It is a sheaf of vertex algebras in the Zarisky (or classical) topology, It comes equipped with a $\BZ$-grading by {\it fermionic charge}, and the {\it chiral de Rham differential} $d_{DR}^{ch}$, which is an endomorphism of degree 1 such that $(d_{DR}^{ch}{)}^2=0$. One has a canonical embedding of the usual de Rham complex $(Ω_X, d_{DR})\hra (Ω_X^{ch}, d_{DR}^{ch})$ which is a quasiisomorphism. If $X$ is Calabi-Yau then this sheaf admits an N=2 supersymmetry. For some $X$ (for example, for curves or for the flag spaces $G/B$), one can construct also a purely even analogue of this sheaf, a {\it chiral structure sheaf} $\CO^{ch}_X$. For the projective line, the space of global sections of the last sheaf is the irreducible vacuum $\hsl(2)$-module on the critical level.

37 pages, Tex. Completed and revised version, to appear in CMP (1999)

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