Gromov-Witten theory of spin curves and orbifolds : AMS Special Session on Gromov-Witten Theory of Spin Curves and Orbifolds, May 3-4, 2003, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, California / / Tyler J. Jarvis, Takashi Kimura, Arkady Vaintrob, editors

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910815366203321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Providence, Rhode Island : , : American Mathematical Society, , [2006]; ©2006
• ISBN: 0-8218-7993-6; 0-8218-3534-3
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (202 p.)
• Collana: Contemporary mathematics, ; 403 , 0271-4132
• Disciplina: 516/.07
• Soggetti: Gromov-Witten invariants; Frobenius manifolds; Orbifolds; Singularities (Mathematics); Homology theory
• 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 -- Introduction -- Moduli Spaces of Curves with Effective r-Spin Structures -- A Construction of Witten's Top Chern Class in K-Theory -- Witten's Conjecture and the Virasoro Conjecture for Genus up to Two -- ldempotents on the Big Phase Space -- Singularities with Symmetries, Orbifold Frobenius Algebras and Mirror Symmetry -- The Cohomology Ring of Crepant Resolutions of Orbifolds -- Differential Characters on Orbifolds and String Connections I: Global Quotients -- HKR characters and higher twisted sectors -- Combinatorics of Binomial Decompositions of the Simplest Hodge Integrals -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Calculation of Hodge integrals -- 3. The number Wg (ηn1) as a sum over trees -- 4. Proofs of Theorems 2.1-2.3 -- Appendix A. Some calculations in genus 2 -- Appendix B. Genus 0 case -- Appendix C. The other Hodge integrals -- References -- The Orbifold Cohomology of the Moduli of Genus-Two Curves -- List of Participants and Abstracts.