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Quantum Cohomology and Morse Theory on the Loop Space of Toric Varieties

Algebraic Geometry 2007-05-23 v1 Symplectic Geometry

Abstract

On a symplectic manifold MM, the quantum product defines a complex, one parameter family of flat connections called the A-model or Dubrovin connections. Let \hbar denote the parameter. Associated to them is the quantum D\mathcal{D} - module D/I{\mathcal{D}}/I over the Heisenberg algebra of first order differential operators on a complex torus. An element of II gives a relation in the quantum cohomology of MM by taking the limit as 0\hbar\to 0. Givental (HomGeom), discovered that there should be a structure of a D\mathcal{D} - module on the (as yet not rigorously defined) S1{S^1} equivariant Floer cohomology of the loop space of MM and conjectured that the two modules should be equal. Based on that, we formulate a conjecture about how to compute the quantum cohomology D\mathcal{D} - module in terms of Morse theoretic data for the symplectic action functional. The conjecture is proven in the case of toric manifolds with dc1>0\int_d{c_1}> 0 for all nonzero classes dd of rational curves in MM.

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@article{arxiv.math/0203083,
  title  = {Quantum Cohomology and Morse Theory on the Loop Space of Toric Varieties},
  author = {Yiannis Vlassopoulos},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:math/0203083},
  year   = {2007}
}

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28 pages