Renormalization for holomorphic field theories

TL;DR

This paper introduces holomorphic field theories on complex manifolds within the BV formalism, demonstrating their one-loop finiteness and analyzing holomorphic anomalies across dimensions.

Contribution

It formalizes holomorphic field theories in the BV framework and proves their one-loop finiteness, providing a new perspective on anomalies in various dimensions.

Findings

Holomorphic theories are one-loop finite.

Complete characterization of holomorphic anomalies.

Connection to chiral conformal field theory in dimension one.

Abstract

We introduce the concept of a holomorphic field theory on any complex manifold in the language of the Batalin-Vilkovisky formalism. When the complex dimension is one, this setting agrees with that of chiral conformal field theory. Our main result concerns the behavior of holomorphic theories under renormalization group flow. Namely, we show that holomorphic theories are one-loop finite. We use this to completely characterize holomorphic anomalies in any dimension. Throughout, we compare our approach to holomorphic field theories to more familiar approaches including that of supersymmetric field theories.