Forum of Mathematics, Pi (Jan 2024)

Virasoro Constraints for Toric Bundles

  • Tom Coates,
  • Alexander Givental,
  • Hsian-Hua Tseng

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1017/fmp.2024.2
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12

Abstract

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We show that the Virasoro conjecture in Gromov–Witten theory holds for the the total space of a toric bundle $E \to B$ if and only if it holds for the base B. The main steps are: (i) We establish a localization formula that expresses Gromov–Witten invariants of E, equivariant with respect to the fiberwise torus action in terms of genus-zero invariants of the toric fiber and all-genus invariants of B, and (ii) we pass to the nonequivariant limit in this formula, using Brown’s mirror theorem for toric bundles.

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