Spin Gromov-Witten invariants

DOI10.1007/S00220-005-1389-3zbMATH Open1094.14042arXivmath/0012210OpenAlexW2032684712MaRDI QIDQ818601FDOQ818601

Authors: Tyler Jarvis, Takashi Kimura, Arkady Vaintrob 

Publication date: 21 March 2006

Published in: Communications in Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We introduce the stack of r-spin maps. These are stable maps into a variety V from n-pointed algebraic curves of genus g, with the additional data of an r-spin structure on the curve. We prove that this stack is a Deligne-Mumford stack, and we define analogs of the Gromov-Witten classes associated to these spaces. We show that these classes yield a cohomological field theory (CohFT) that is the tensor product of the CohFT associated to the usual Gromov-Witten invariants of V and the r-spin CohFT. When r=2, our construction gives the usual Gromov-Witten invariants of V. Restricting to genus zero, we obtain the notion of an r-spin quantum cohomology of V, whose Frobenius structure is isomorphic to the tensor product of the Frobenius manifolds corresponding to the quantum cohomology of V and the r-th Gelfand-Dickey hierarchy (or, equivalently, the A_{r-1} singularity). We also prove a generalization of the descent property which, in particular, explains the appearance of the psi-classes in the definition of gravitational descendants. Finally, we compute the small phase space potential function when r=3 and V=CP^1.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0012210

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zbMATH Keywords

quantum cohomologyspin structurescohomological field theory

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Gromov-Witten invariants, quantum cohomology, Gopakumar-Vafa invariants, Donaldson-Thomas invariants (algebro-geometric aspects) (14N35)

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