A topological quantum field theory of intersection numbers on moduli spaces of admissible covers

Cavalieri, Renzo

doi:10.2140/ant.2007.1.35

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A topological quantum field theory of intersection numbers on moduli spaces of admissible covers

Renzo Cavalieri

Vol. 1 (2007), No. 1, 35–66

DOI: 10.2140/ant.2007.1.35

Abstract

We construct a two-level weighted topological quantum field theory whose structure coefficients are equivariant intersection numbers on moduli spaces of admissible covers. Such a structure is parallel (and strictly related) to the local Gromov–Witten theory of curves of Bryan and Pandharipande. We compute explicitly the theory using techniques of localization on moduli spaces of admissible covers of a parametrized $ℙ^{1}$ . The Frobenius algebras we obtain are one-parameter deformations of the class algebra of the symmetric group $S_{d}$ . In certain special cases we are able to produce explicit closed formulas for such deformations in terms of the representation theory of $S_{d}$ .

Keywords

TQFT, topological quantum field theory, admissible covers, Gromov–Witten Invariants

Mathematical Subject Classification 2000

Primary: 14N35

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Received: 10 February 2007

Accepted: 13 May 2007

Published: 1 February 2007

Authors

Renzo Cavalieri
University of Michigan Department of Mathematics 2074 East Hall 530 Church Street Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1043 United States

Vol. 1, No. 1, 2007