Stringy Hodge numbers and Virasoro algebra

DOI10.4310/MRL.2000.V7.N2.A2MaRDI QIDQ1580347zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Victor Batyrev

Publication date 4 January 2001

Published in Mathematical Research Letters (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/alg-geom/9711019

zbMATH Keywords

quantum cohomology theory of singular varietiesstringy Euler numberstringy Hodge numbersVirasoro algebra

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Singularities in algebraic geometry (14B05) Gromov-Witten invariants, quantum cohomology, Gopakumar-Vafa invariants, Donaldson-Thomas invariants (algebro-geometric aspects) (14N35) Virasoro and related algebras (17B68) String and superstring theories; other extended objects (e.g., branes) in quantum field theory (81T30)

Abstract: Let $X$ be an arbitrary smooth $n$-dimensional projective variety. It was discovered by Libgober and Wood that the product of the Chern classes $c_1(X)c_{n-1}(X)$ depends only on the Hodge numbers of $X$. This result has been used by Eguchi, Jinzenji and Xiong in their approach to the quantum cohomology of $X$ via a representation of the Virasoro algebra with the central charge $c_n(X)$. In this paper we define for singular varieties $X$ a rational number $c_{st}^{1,n-1}(X)$ which is a stringy version of the number $c_1{c}_{n-1}$ for smooth $n$-folds. We show that the number $c_{st}^{1,n-1}(X)$ can be expressed in the same way using the stringy Hodge numbers of $X$. Our results provides an evidence for the existence of an approach to quantum cohomology of singular varieties $X$ via a representation of the Virasoro algebra whose central charge is the rational number $e_{st}(X)$ which equals the stringy Euler number of $X$.

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