Descendants constructed from matter field in Landau-Ginzburg theories coupled to topological gravity

It is argued that gravitational descendants in the theory of topological gravity coupled to topological Landau-Ginzburg theory (not necessarily conformal) can be constructed from matter fields alone (without metric fields and ghosts). In this sense topological gravity is induced. We discuss the mechanism of this effect (that turns out to be connected with K. Saito's higher residue pairing: Kⁱ(_i(₁),₂)=K⁰(₁,₂)), and demonstrate how it works in a simplest nontrivial example: correlator on a sphere with four marked points. We also discuss some results on k-point correlators on a sphere. From the idea of induced topological gravity it follows that the theory of pure topological gravity (without topological matter) is equivalent to the trivial Landau-Ginzburg theory (with quadratic superpotential).Published in Teoreticheskaya i Matematicheskaya Fizika, Vol. 95, No. 2, pp. 307–316, May, 1993.