Gromov--Witten Theory of CP^1 and Integrable Hierarchies

Publication date 29 April 2006

Abstract: The ancestor Gromov--Witten invariants of a compact {Kahler} manifold

X

can be organized in a generating function called the total ancestor potential of

X

. In this paper, we construct Hirota Quadratic Equations (HQE shortly) for the total ancestor potential of

C P^{1}

. The idea is to adopt the formalism developed in cite{G1,GM} to the mirror model of

C P^{1}

. We hope that the ideas presented here can be generalized to other manifolds as well. As a corollary, using the twisted loop group formalism from cite{G3}, we obtain a new proof of the following version of the Toda conjecture: the total descendant potential of

C P^{1}

(known also as the partition function of the

C P^{1}

topological sigma model) is a tau-function of the Extended Toda Hierarchy.

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