On orbifold Gromov-Witten theory in codimension one (Q284978)

It is known that for a smooth Deligne-Mumford stack, the stack structures in codimension one are obtained by applications of root constructions along divisors. Motivated by this fact and from the Gromov-Witten theory point of view, the paper under reivew proposes the following conjecture: Suppose \(X\) is a smooth proper Deligne-Mumford stack with projective coarse moduli space and let \(D \subset X\) be an irreducible smooth divisor, and let \(\mathcal X_r\) be the \(r\)-th root stack along \(D\). Then, the Gromov-Witten theory of \(\mathcal X_r\) is determined by the Gromov-Witten theory of \(X\), \(D\), and the restriction map \(H^*(IX)\to H^*(ID)\). The paper under review proves the conjecture in the case that \(D\) is disjoint from the locus of stack structures of \(X\). The proof of this is a combination of degeneration and virtual localization along the lines of the work by \textit{D. Maulik} and \textit{R. Pandharipande} [Topology 45, No. 5, 887--918 (2006; Zbl 1112.14065)] on a topological view of Gromov-Witten theory.