Two proofs of a conjecture of hori and VAFA

Aaron Bertram, Ionut Ciocan-Fontanine, Bumsig Kim

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Abstract

We give two proofs of a conjecture of Hori and Vafa which expresses the J-function - a generating function for 1-point descendant Gromov-Witten invariants - of a Grassmannian in terms of the J-function of a product of projective spaces. Similar relations are obtained for 2-point descendants and 3-point primary Gromov-Witten invariants. As an application, we prove Givental's A-conjecture, and hence the Virasoro conjecture, for Grassmannians.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages (from-to)101-136
Number of pages36
JournalDuke Mathematical Journal
Volume126
Issue number1
DOIs
StatePublished - Jan 15 2005

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