Quantum cohomology and free field representation

Sep, 1997
13 pages
Published in:
  • Nucl.Phys.B 510 (1998) 608-622
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Report number:
  • UT-789,
  • YITP-97-47

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Abstract:
In our previous article we have proposed that the Virasoro algebra controls the quantum cohomology of Fano varieties at all genera. In this paper we construct a free field description of Virasoro operators and quantum cohomology. We shall show that to each even (odd) homology class of a K\"{a}hler manifold we have a free bosonic (fermionic) field and Virasoro operators are given by a simple bilinear form of these fields. We shall show that the Virasoro condition correctly reproduces the Gromov-Witten invariants also in the case of manifolds with non-vanishing non-analytic classes (hp,q0,pqh^{p,q}\not=0,p\not=q) and suggest that the Virasoro condition holds universally for all compact smooth K\"{a}hler manifolds.
  • 11.25.Hf
  • 11.10.Kk
  • 11.15.Tk
  • Quantum cohomology
  • Topological field theory
  • Virasoro algebra
  • field theory: conformal
  • dimension: 2
  • operator: Virasoro
  • operator: algebra