Ruan's conjecture on singular symplectic flops of mixed type (Q477056)

\textit{Y. Ruan} [in: Northern California symplectic geometry seminar. Providence, RI: American Mathematical Society. 183--198 (1999; Zbl 0952.53001)] and \textit{C.-L. Wang} [in: Second International Congress of Chinese Mathematicians. New Stud. Adv. Math., 4, Int. Press, Somerville, MA, 199--216 (2004)] have conjectured that any two \(K\)-equivalent Gorenstein orbifolds \(X\) and \(Y\) have isomorphic quantum cohomologies. \textit{T.-J. Li} and \textit{Y. Ruan} [in: New perspectives and challenges in symplectic field theory. Dedicated to Yakov Eliashberg on the occasion of his 60th birthday. Providence, RI: American Mathematical Society (AMS). 307--326 (2009; Zbl 1183.53079)] proved this conjecture when \(X\) and \(Y\) are two Calabi-Yau 3-manifolds that differ by a simple \(\mathbb{P}^1\)-flop. This has been generalized to simple \(\mathbb{P}^r\) flops and Mukai flops. A lot of effort has been put by \textit{Y. P. Lee} et al. [Ann. Math. (2) 172, No. 1, 243--290 (2010; Zbl 1272.14040)] in the cases of non simple flops and preservation of the higher genus Gromov-Witten theory. The paper under review studies the conjecture above in the case of orbifolds, and particularly for the class of the \((r,b)\)-orbiconifold singularities. The singular symplectic flops are defined for this class of orbifolds following the work of \textit{B. Chen} et al. [Topology 48, No. 1, 1--22 (2009; Zbl 1176.53082)]. The main result of the paper proves that the Ruan's cohomologies of two symplectic 3-orbifolds with orbifold singularities which are the small crepant resolutions of the \((r,b)\)-orbiconifold singularities and which differ by a singular symplectic flop are isomorphic. This result can be viewed as a generalization of the result of Chen et al. [loc. cit.] to the case of the singular symplectic flops of non-simple or of mixed types.