Virasoro conjecture

In algebraic geometry, the Virasoro conjecture states that a certain generating function encoding Gromov–Witten invariants of a smooth projective variety is fixed by an action of half of the Virasoro algebra. The Virasoro conjecture is named after theoretical physicist Miguel Ángel Virasoro. Tohru Eguchi, Kentaro Hori, and Chuan-Sheng Xiong (1997) proposed the Virasoro conjecture as a generalization of Witten's conjecture. Ezra Getzler (1999) gave a survey of the Virasoro conjecture.

References

Getzler, Ezra (1999), "The Virasoro conjecture for Gromov-Witten invariants", in Wiśniewski, Jarosław; Szurek, Michał; Pragacz, Piotr (eds.), Algebraic geometry: Hirzebruch 70 (Warsaw, 1998), Contemporary Mathematics, vol. 241, Providence, R.I.: American Mathematical Society, pp. 147–176, arXiv:math/9812026, Bibcode:1998math.....12026G, doi:10.1090/conm/241/03634, ISBN 978-0-8218-1149-8, MR 1718143
Eguchi, Tohru; Hori, Kentaro; Xiong, Chuan-Sheng (1997), "Quantum cohomology and Virasoro algebra", Physics Letters B, 402 (1): 71–80, arXiv:hep-th/9703086, Bibcode:1997PhLB..402...71E, doi:10.1016/S0370-2693(97)00401-2, ISSN 0370-2693, MR 1454328

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