Computing genus-zero twisted Gromov-Witten invariants

Generalizations (algebraic spaces, stacks) (14A20) Gromov-Witten invariants, quantum cohomology, Gopakumar-Vafa invariants, Donaldson-Thomas invariants (algebro-geometric aspects) (14N35) Gromov-Witten invariants, quantum cohomology, Frobenius manifolds (53D45)

Abstract: Twisted Gromov-Witten invariants are intersection numbers in moduli spaces of stable maps to a manifold or orbifold X which depend in addition on a vector bundle over X and an invertible multiplicative characteristic class. Special cases are closely related to local Gromov-Witten invariants of the bundle, and to genus-zero one-point invariants of complete intersections in X. We develop tools for computing genus-zero twisted Gromov-Witten invariants of orbifolds and apply them to several examples. We prove a "quantum Lefschetz theorem" which expresses genus-zero one-point Gromov-Witten invariants of a complete intersection in terms of those of the ambient orbifold X. We determine the genus-zero Gromov-Witten potential of the type A surface singularity C^2/Z_n. We also compute some genus-zero invariants of C^3/Z_3, verifying predictions of Aganagic-Bouchard-Klemm. In a self-contained Appendix, we determine the relationship between the quantum cohomology of the A_n surface singularity and that of its crepant resolution, thereby proving the Crepant Resolution Conjectures of Ruan and Bryan-Graber in this case.

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The paper under review concerns twisted Gromov-Witten invariants of orbifolds. Fixing an orbifold \(\mathcal X\), we let \(\mathcal X_{g,n,d}\) be the moduli space of stable maps to \(\mathcal X\). Each vector bundle \(E\) over \(\mathcal X\) gives rise to a \(K\)-theory class \[ E_{g,n,d}=\pi_{!} f^{\star} E \] via pushforward from the universal family of the pullback of \(E\). The twisted Gromov-Witten invariants are integrals of the form \[ \int_{[\mathcal X_{g, n,d}]^{vir}} c(E_{g,n,d}) \prod_{i=1}^{n} {\text{ev}}_i^{\star} \alpha_i \psi_i^{k_i} \] for nonnegative integers \(k_i\) and classes \(\alpha_i\in H^{\star}_{orb}(\mathcal X).\) Here \(c\) denotes an invertible multiplicative characteristic class. The computation of twisted invariants is considered in this paper. In particular, the authors prove a ``quantum Lefschetz theorem expressing genus zero one point twisted invariants of complete intersections in terms of the invariants of the ambient orbifold. Furthermore, the genus zero potential of \(\left[\mathbb C^2/\mathbb Z_n\right]\) are computed. Calculations for \(\left[\mathbb C^3/\mathbb Z_3\right]\) also also presented. The appendix proves Ruan's Crepant Resolution Conjecture for type A surface singularity. Letting \(Y\) be the crepant resolution of the singularity \(\mathcal X=\left[\mathbb C^2/\mathbb Z_n\right]\), the Conjecture gives an isomorphism between the small quantum cohomology of \(Y\) and the quantum cohomology of \(\mathcal X\) after analytic continuation in the quantum parameters and specializiation of some quantum parameters to roots of unity. In fact, a stronger statement of Bryan-Graber is proved here, matching the big quantum cohomology after analytic continuation and specialization, via a linear isomorphism preserving the orbifold Poincaré pairing.

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