Gravitational Descendants and the Moduli Space of Higher Spin Curves

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The purpose of this note is introduce a new axiom (called the Descent Axiom) in the theory of $r$-spin cohomological field theories. This axiom explains the origin of gravitational descendants in this theory. Furthermore, the Descent Axiom immediately implies the Vanishing Axiom, explicating the latter (which has no a priori analog in the theory of Gromov-Witten invariants), in terms of the multiplicativity of the virtual class. We prove that the Descent Axiom holds in the convex case, and consequently in genus zero.
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Algebraic Geometry, Differential Geometry, Quantum Algebra, 14N35, 53D45, 14H10

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http://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/59882

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https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0009066
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