Cohomological field theory calculations

DOI10.1142/9789813272880_0031zbMATH Open1441.14185arXiv1712.02528OpenAlexW2972817495MaRDI QIDQ5122001FDOQ5122001

Authors: Rahul Pandharipande 

Publication date: 22 September 2020

Published in: Proceedings of the International Congress of Mathematicians (ICM 2018) (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Cohomological field theories (CohFTs) were defined in the mid 1990s by Kontsevich and Manin to capture the formal properties of the virtual fundamental class in Gromov-Witten theory. A beautiful classification result for semisimple CohFTs (via the action of the Givental group) was proven by Teleman in 2012. The Givental-Teleman classification can be used to explicitly calculate the full CohFT in many interesting cases not approachable by earlier methods. My goal here is to present an introduction to these ideas together with a survey of the calculations of the CohFTs obtained from Witten's classes on the moduli spaces of r-spin curves, Chern characters of the Verlinde bundles on the moduli of curves, and Gromov-Witten classes of the Hilbert schemes of points of the plane. The subject is full of basic open questions.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1712.02528

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Families, moduli of curves (algebraic) (14H10) Vector bundles on curves and their moduli (14H60) Relationships between algebraic curves and physics (14H81) Gromov-Witten invariants, quantum cohomology, Gopakumar-Vafa invariants, Donaldson-Thomas invariants (algebro-geometric aspects) (14N35) Gromov-Witten invariants, quantum cohomology, Frobenius manifolds (53D45) Two-dimensional field theories, conformal field theories, etc. in quantum mechanics (81T40) Research exposition (monographs, survey articles) pertaining to algebraic geometry (14-02)

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