Joint IAS-PU Symplectic Geometry Seminar | |
Topic: | Gromov-Witten Theory and Cycle-Valued Modular Forms |
Speaker: | Yefeng Shen |
Affiliation: | University of Michigan |
Date: | Friday, November 30 |
Time/Room: | 1:30pm - 2:30pm/Fine Hall 401 |
A remarkable phenomenon in Gromov-Witten theory is the appearance of (quasi)-modular forms. For example, Gromov-Witten generating functions for elliptic curve, local $\mathbb{P}^2$, elliptic orbifold $\mathbb{P}^1$ are all (quasi)-modular forms. In this talk, we will discuss modularity property of the Gwomov-Witten cycles of elliptic orbifold $\mathbb{P}^1$. Since Gromov-Witten cycles live in the cohomology space of moduli of pointed curves, our result gives a geometric realization of a collection of vector-valued (quasi)-modularity forms via Gromov-Witten theory. This work is joint with Todor Milanov and Yongbin Ruan.