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We give the operadic formulation of (weak, strong) topological vertex algebras, which are variants of topological vertex operator algebras studied recently by Lian and Zuckerman. As an application, we obtain a conceptual and geometric construction of the Batalin-Vilkovisky algebraic structure (or the Gerstenhaber algebra structure) on the cohomology of a topological vertex algebra (or of a weak topological vertex algebra) by combining this operadic formulation with a theorem of Getzler (or of Cohen) which formulates Batalin-Vilkovisky algebras (or Gerstenhaber algebras) in terms of the homology of the framed little disk operad (or of the little disk operad).
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Communicated by N.Yu. Reshetikhin
The author is supported in part by NSF grant DMS-9104519
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Huang, YZ. Operadic formulation of topological vertex algebras and Gerstenhaber or Batalin-Vilkovisky algebras. Commun.Math. Phys. 164, 105–144 (1994). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02108808
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