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Holomorphic Anomalies in Topological Field Theories

High Energy Physics - Theory 2009-09-17 v1 alg-geom Algebraic Geometry

Abstract

We study the stringy genus one partition function of N=2N=2 SCFT's. It is shown how to compute this using an anomaly in decoupling of BRST trivial states from the partition function. A particular limit of this partition function yields the partition function of topological theory coupled to topological gravity. As an application we compute the number of holomorphic elliptic curves over certain Calabi-Yau manifolds including the quintic threefold. This may be viewed as the first application of mirror symmetry at the string quantum level.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/9302103,
  title  = {Holomorphic Anomalies in Topological Field Theories},
  author = {M. Bershadsky and S. Cecotti and H. Ooguri and C. Vafa and S. Katz},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/9302103},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

32 pages. Appendix by S.Katz