Curves with boundary: Can you count them? Can you really?

Speaker
Sara Tukachinsky, IAS, Princeton
Date
17/11/2019 - 13:00 - 12:00Add to Calendar 2019-11-17 12:00:00 2019-11-17 13:00:00 Curves with boundary: Can you count them? Can you really? Open Gromov-Witten (OGW) invariants should count pseudoholomorphic maps from Riemann surfaces with boundary to a symplectic manifold, with boundary conditions and various constraints on boundary and interior marked points. The presence of boundary leads to bubbling phenomena that pose a fundamental obstacle to invariance. In a joint work with J. Solomon, we developed a general approach to defining genus zero OGW invariants. The construction uses the heavy machinery of Fukaya A_\infty algebras. Nonetheless, in a recent work, also joint with J. Solomon, we find that the generating function of OGW invariants has many properties that enable explicit calculations. Most notably, it satisfies a system of PDE called the open WDVV equations. For projective spaces, this system of PDE generates recursion relations that allow the computation of all invariants.  We further reinterpret the open WDVV equations as the associativity relation for a relative quantum product. No prior knowledge of any of the above notions will be assumed. Department Colloquium Room 201, building 216 אוניברסיטת בר-אילן - המחלקה למתמטיקה mathoffice@math.biu.ac.il Asia/Jerusalem public
Place
Department Colloquium Room 201, building 216
Abstract

Open Gromov-Witten (OGW) invariants should count pseudoholomorphic maps from Riemann surfaces with boundary to a symplectic manifold, with boundary conditions and various constraints on boundary and interior marked points. The presence of boundary leads to bubbling phenomena that pose a fundamental obstacle to invariance. In a joint work with J. Solomon, we developed a general approach to defining genus zero OGW invariants.

The construction uses the heavy machinery of Fukaya A_\infty algebras. Nonetheless, in a recent work, also joint with J. Solomon, we find that the generating function of OGW invariants has many properties that enable explicit calculations. Most notably, it satisfies a system of PDE called the open WDVV equations. For projective spaces, this system of PDE generates recursion relations that allow the computation of all invariants. 

We further reinterpret the open WDVV equations as the associativity relation for a relative quantum product.

No prior knowledge of any of the above notions will be assumed.

תאריך עדכון אחרון : 08/11/2019