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Topological Orbifold Models and Quantum Cohomology Rings

High Energy Physics - Theory 2009-10-22 v1

Abstract

We discuss the toplogical sigma model on an orbifold target space. We describe the moduli space of classical minima for computing correlation functions involving twisted operators, and show, through a detailed computation of an orbifold of CP1{\bf CP}^1 by the dihedral group D4,D_{4}, how to compute the complete ring of observables. Through this procedure, we compute all the rings from dihedral CP1{\bf CP}^1 orbifolds; we note a similarity with rings derived from perturbed DD-series superpotentials of the ADEA-D-E classification of N=2N = 2 minimal models. We then consider CP2/D4,{\bf CP}^2/D_4, and show how the techniques of topological-anti-topological fusion might be used to compute twist field correlation functions for nonabelian orbifolds.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/9211119,
  title  = {Topological Orbifold Models and Quantum Cohomology Rings},
  author = {Eric Zaslow},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/9211119},
  year   = {2009}
}

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48 pages, harvmac, HUTP-92/A065