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Title:
The Green-Schwarz mechanism and higher-loop anomaly cancellation in topological string field theory: Part 2

Speaker:
Kevin Costello

Abstract:
The Green-Schwarz mechanism explains how one-loop anomalies are cancelled in physical string field theory. I will explain a version of this mechanism that applies to the open-closed string field theory associated to the topological B-model. Remarkably, in this context, the one-loop anomaly cancellation extends to all orders in the loop expansion, fixing the quantum theory uniquely.

Link:
http://scgp.stonybrook.edu/video_portal/video.php?id=4120

Workshop:
Simons- Workshop: String field theory, BV quantization, and moduli spaces