Gromov-Witten invariants of Fano hypersurfaces, revisited (Q927353)

A Fano hypersurface is a hypersurface of projective space cut out by a polynomial of degree less than or equal to the dimension of the projective space. Gromov-Witten invariants count \(J\)-holomorphic curves in a variety. The actual definition is fairly technical and it is remarkable that there are many different methods to compute these invariants. Basically these invariants satisfy a surprising number of different recurrence relations. The structure that is relevant for this paper is the small quantum cohomology. The genus zero three-point GW invariants can be encoded (as structure constants) into an algebra called the small quantum cohomology of the variety. The recurrence relations translate into quantum differential equations for suitable generating functions. In this paper, H. Sakai demonstrates that \(\mathcal{D}\)-module techniques can be used to give an efficient algorithm to compute the small quantum cohomology of Fano hypersurfaces.