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Relations between the correlators of the topological sigma-model coupled to gravity

alg-geom 2009-10-30 v1 High Energy Physics - Theory Algebraic Geometry

Abstract

We prove a new recursive relation between the correlators <τd1γ1...τdnγn>g,β< \tau_{d_1}\gamma_1...\tau_{d_n}\gamma_n >_{g,\beta}, which together with known relations allows one to express all of them through the full system of Gromov-Witten invariants in the sense of Kontsevich-Manin and the intersection indices of tautological classes on Mˉg,n\bar{M}_{g,n}, effectively calculable in view of earlier results due to Mumford, Kontsevich, Getzler, and Faber. This relation shows that a linear change of coordinates of the big phase space transforms the potential with gravitational descendants to another function defined completely in terms of the Gromov-Witten correspondence and the intersection theory on Vn×Mˉg,nV^n\times\bar{M}_{g,n}. We then extend the formalism of gravitational descendants from quantum cohomology to more general Frobenius manifolds and Cohomological Field Theories.

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@article{arxiv.alg-geom/9708024,
  title  = {Relations between the correlators of the topological sigma-model coupled to gravity},
  author = {Maxim Kontsevich and Yuri I. Manin},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:alg-geom/9708024},
  year   = {2009}
}

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AMS-Tex, 13 pages, no figures

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