A mathematical theory of the gauged linear sigma model (Q1676770)

The authors provide a formal algebraic treatment of the gauged linear sigma model (GLSM). This extends earlier work by the same authors [Ann. Math. (2) 178, No. 1, 1--106 (2013; Zbl 1310.32032)] relevant to the Landau-Ginzburg/Calabi-Yau (LG/CY) correspondence relating the LG dual of a CY hypersurface with its FJRW theory, an analog of its Gromov-Witten theory (cf. [\textit{E. Witten}, AMS/IP Stud. Adv. Math. 1, 143--211 (1997; Zbl 0910.14019)]). Several examples of the GLSM in this new formalism are detailed including cases with non-abelian gauge group. Among these are treatments for flag varieties, complete intersections in a Grassmannian, and hypersurfaces in a product of weighted projective spaces. The central technical result proves that for \(G\subset GL(V)\) a reductive algebraic group, the stack of so-called \textit{LG quasimaps} to a certain GIT quotient \(\mathcal{C}\mathcal{R}_{\theta}\) of the \(G\)-invariant superpotential \(W:V\to \mathbb{C}\) critical locus is a proper Deligne-Mumford stack for \(\mathcal{C}\mathcal{R}_{\theta}\) proper. The approach involves extending the Polishchuk-Vaintrob characterization [\textit{A. Polishchuk} and \textit{A. Vaintrob}, J. Reine Angew. Math. 714, 1--122 (2016; Zbl 1357.14024)] of the FJRW moduli space to the case of reductive algebraic groups.