2023/08/11 by Sahoo, Anupam, Das, Apurba
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paper · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2308.05951
The notion of conformal algebras was introduced by Victor G. Kac using the axiomatic description of the operator product expansion of chiral fields in conformal field theory. The structure theory, representations and cohomology of Lie and associative conformal algebras are extensively studied in the literature. In this paper, we first introduce A_∞-conformal algebras as the homotopy analogue of associative conformal algebras, provide some equivalent descriptions and prove the homotopy transfer theorem. We characterize some A_∞-conformal algebras in terms of Hochschild cohomology classes of associative conformal algebras. Next, we introduce associative conformal 2-algebras as the categorification of associative conformal algebras. We show that the category of associative conformal 2-algebras and the category of 2-term A_∞-conformal algebras are equivalent. Finally, we consider L_∞-conformal algebras and find their relations with A_∞-conformal algebras.