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quantum sheaf cohomology

Context

Cohomology

cohomology

Special and general types

Special notions

Variants

Extra structure

Operations

Theorems

Quantum field theory

Contents

Idea

Gromov-Witten theory may be understood as providing a product on formal power series over certain abelian sheaf cohomology groups of Kähler manifolds X. The quantum cohomology of X is the resulting Frobenius algebra structure on these formal power series.

Together with Gromov-Witten theory quantum sheaf cohomlogy was discovered in and has its geometric roots as part of the data that describes certain 2-dimensional sigma-model quantum field theories with target space X.

References

An introduction for readers familiar with basic concepts of Gromov-Witten theory is in

  • Josh Guffin, Quantum sheaf cohomology, a précis (pdf)

Slides of a talk for an audience of mathematical string theorists are

  • Eric Sharpe,

    Quantum sheaf cohomology (pdf) Brandeis university (2010)

    Quantum sheaf cohomology I (pdf)

Revised on March 20, 2013 11:53:35 by Urs Schreiber (82.169.65.155)