HOLOMORPHIC ANOMALIES IN TOPOLOGICAL FIELD-THEORIES

Citation
M. Bershadsky et al., HOLOMORPHIC ANOMALIES IN TOPOLOGICAL FIELD-THEORIES, Nuclear physics. B, 405(2-3), 1993, pp. 279-304
Citations number
42
Categorie Soggetti
Physics, Nuclear
Journal title
ISSN journal
05503213
Volume
405
Issue
2-3
Year of publication
1993
Pages
279 - 304
Database
ISI
SICI code
0550-3213(1993)405:2-3<279:HAITF>2.0.ZU;2-2
Abstract
We study the stringy genus-one partition function of N = 2 SCFTs. It i s shown how to compute this using an anomaly in decoupling of BRST tri vial states from the partition function. A particular limit of this pa rtition function yields the partition function of topological theory c oupled to topological gravity. As an application we compute the number of holomorphic elliptic curves over certain Calabi-Yau manifolds incl uding the quintic threefold. This may be viewed as the first applicati on of mirror symmetry at the string quantum level.