• Title of article

    Quantum cohomology and Virasoro algebra

  • Author/Authors

    Tohru Eguchi، نويسنده , , Kentaro Hori، نويسنده , , Chuan-Sheng Xiong، نويسنده ,

  • Issue Information
    روزنامه با شماره پیاپی سال 1997
  • Pages
    10
  • From page
    71
  • To page
    80
  • Abstract
    We propose that the Virasoro algebra controls quantum cohomologies of general Fano manifolds M(c1(M) > 0) and determines their partition functions at all genera. We construct Virasoro operators in the case of complex projective spaces and show that they reproduce the results of Kontsevich-Manin, Getzler ect. on the genus-0,1 instanton numbers. We also construct Virasoro operators for a wider class of Fano varieties. The central charge of the algebra is equal to χ(M), the Euler characteristic of the manifold M.
  • Journal title
    PHYSICS LETTERS B
  • Serial Year
    1997
  • Journal title
    PHYSICS LETTERS B
  • Record number

    908308