Analyticity of the total ancestor potential in singularity theory (Q2445920): Difference between revisions

The Gromov-Witten invariants are a suite of invariants obtained by integrating various natural cohomology classes over the moduli of harmonic maps from a Riemann surface into a symplectic manifold or projective variety. There are many technical details required to formalize the definition of these invariants. What initially looks like a very complicated set of computations becomes much more tractable given the many recursion relations and rich algebraic structure relating these invariants. One of the most interesting simplifications is the realization that in many cases (such as existence of a sufficiently large collection of rational curves) the higher genus invariants are determined by the genus zero invariants. The various recursion relations lead one to define various generating functions that encode the Gromov-Witten invariants. Given a versal deformation of an isolated singularity, one may put a Frobenius structure on the parameter space. This is covered in this paper after the introduction. One may then define a certain generating function, called the total ancestor potential, based on the Gromov-Witten invariants of the fibers over semi- simple points. A. Givental conjectured that this would extend analytically. The main result of this paper is a proof of this conjecture.