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Record Nr.

UNINA9910788662803321

Titolo

Orbifolds in mathematics and physics : proceedings of a conference on mathematical aspects of orbifold string theory, May 4-8, 2001, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin / / Alejandro Adem, Jack Morava, Yongbin Ruan, editors

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Providence, Rhode Island : , : American Mathematical Society, , [2002]

©2002

ISBN

0-8218-7900-6

0-8218-5646-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (370 p.)

Collana

Contemporary mathematics, , 0271-4132 ; ; 310

Disciplina

539.7/2

Soggetti

Orbifolds

Mathematical physics

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

""Contents""; ""Preface""; ""Algebraic orbifold quantum products""; ""Orbifold Gromov-Witten theory""; ""On orbifold elliptic genus""; ""Open-string Gromov-Witten invariants: Calculations and a mirror ""theorem""""; ""Orbifold quantum cohomology of the classifying space of a finite group""; ""Orbifold Frobenius algebras, cobordisms, and monodromies""; ""Loop groupoids, gerbes, and twisted sectors on orbifolds""; ""Framed knots at large N""; ""Orbifolds as groupoids: An introduction""; ""Orbifold cohomology group of toric varieties""; ""Hilbert schemes and symmetric products: A dictionary""

""1. Introduction""""2. The cohomology ring of Hilbert schemes""; ""3. The orbifold cohomology ring of symmetric products I""; ""4. The orbifold cohomology ring of symmetric products II""; ""5. The deformed orbifold cohomology ring of symmetric products""; ""6. Open questions""; ""References""; ""Stringy orbifolds""; ""Discrete torsion, quotient stacks, and string orbifolds""; ""Orbifold constructions of K3: A link between conformal field theory and geometry""