2018/03/04 by Lho, Hyenho, Pandharipande, Rahul
#Algebraic Geometry (math.AG) #FOS: Mathematics
paper · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1803.01409
We define a formal Gromov-Witten theory of the quintic 3-fold via localization on CP4. Our main result is a direct geometric proof of holomorphic anomaly equations for the formal quintic in precisely the same form as predicted by B-model physics for the true Gromov-Witten theory of the quintic 3-fold. The results suggest that the formal quintic and the true quintic theories should be related by transformations which respect the holomorphic anomaly equations. Such a relationship has been recently found by Q. Chen, S. Guo, F. Janda, and Y. Ruan via the geometry of new moduli spaces.