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The Quantum Orbifold Cohomology of Weighted Projective Spaces

Algebraic Geometry 2022-11-14 v6 Mathematical Physics math.MP Symplectic Geometry

Abstract

We calculate the small quantum orbifold cohomology of arbitrary weighted projective spaces. We generalize Givental's heuristic argument, which relates small quantum cohomology to S^1-equivariant Floer cohomology of loop space, to weighted projective spaces and use this to conjecture an explicit formula for the small J-function, a generating function for certain genus-zero Gromov-Witten invariants. We prove this conjecture using a method due to Bertram. This provides the first non-trivial example of a family of orbifolds of arbitrary dimension for which the small quantum orbifold cohomology is known. We also obtain formulas for the small J-functions of weighted projective complete intersections satisfying a combinatorial condition; this condition naturally singles out the class of orbifolds with terminal singularities.

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@article{arxiv.math/0608481,
  title  = {The Quantum Orbifold Cohomology of Weighted Projective Spaces},
  author = {Tom Coates and Alessio Corti and Yuan-Pin Lee and Hsian-Hua Tseng},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:math/0608481},
  year   = {2022}
}

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LaTeX, 45 pages. Version 2: minor changes. Version 3: further typos corrected. Version 4: minor changes. Version 5: major changes to the exposition (especially in Section 3), title changed. Version 6: this is the final version; to appear in Acta Mathematica