The moduli space of maps with crosscaps: Fredholm theory and orientability

DOI10.4310/CAG.2015.V23.N3.A3zbMATH Open1441.14181arXiv1301.1074MaRDI QIDQ2340905FDOQ2340905

Authors: Penka Georgieva, Aleksey Zinger 

Publication date: 21 April 2015

Published in: Communications in Analysis and Geometry (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Just as a symmetric surface with separating fixed locus halves into two oriented bordered surfaces, an arbitrary symmetric surface halves into two oriented symmetric half-surfaces, i.e. surfaces with crosscaps. Motivated in part by the string theory view of real Gromov-Witten invariants, we introduce moduli spaces of maps from surfaces with crosscaps, develop the relevant Fredholm theory, and resolve the orientability problem in this setting. In particular, we give an explicit formula for the holonomy of the orientation bundle of a family of real Cauchy-Riemann operators over Riemann surfaces with crosscaps. Special cases of our formulas are closely related to the orientability question for the space of real maps from symmetric Riemann surfaces to an almost complex manifold with an anti-complex involution and in fact resolve this question in genus 0. In particular, we show that the moduli space of real J-holomorphic maps from the sphere with a fixed-point free involution to a simply connected almost complex manifold with an even canonical class is orientable. In a sequel, we use the results of this paper to obtain a similar orientability statement for genus 1 real maps.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1301.1074

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Gromov-Witten invariants, quantum cohomology, Gopakumar-Vafa invariants, Donaldson-Thomas invariants (algebro-geometric aspects) (14N35) Gromov-Witten invariants, quantum cohomology, Frobenius manifolds (53D45) Equivariant homology and cohomology in algebraic topology (55N91)

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