The Witten equation and its virtual fundamental cycle

arXiv0712.4025MaRDI QIDQ6207926FDOQ6207926

Huijun Fan, Yongbin Ruan, Tyler Jarvis

Publication date: 24 December 2007

Abstract: We study a system of nonlinear elliptic PDEs associated with a quasi-homogeneous polynomial. These equations were proposed by Witten as the replacement for the Cauchy-Riemann equation in the singularity (Landau-Ginzburg) setting. We introduce a perturbation to the equation and construct a virtual cycle for the moduli space of its solutions. Then, we study the wall-crossing of the deformation of the virtual cycle under perturbation and match it to classical Picard-Lefschetz theory. An extended virtual cycle is obtained for the original equation. Finally, we prove that the extended virtual cycle satisfies a set of axioms similar to those of Gromov-Witten theory and r-spin theory.

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Gromov-Witten invariants, quantum cohomology, Gopakumar-Vafa invariants, Donaldson-Thomas invariants (algebro-geometric aspects) (14N35) Complex-analytic moduli problems (32G13) Gromov-Witten invariants, quantum cohomology, Frobenius manifolds (53D45) Elliptic equations on manifolds, general theory (58J05) Families, moduli of curves (analytic) (14H15)

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