Relative quasimaps and mirror formulae
arXiv:1710.11158 · doi:10.1093/imrn/rnz339
Abstract
We construct and study the theory of relative quasimaps in genus zero, in the spirit of Gathmann. When is a smooth toric variety and is a smooth very ample hypersurface in , we produce a virtual class on the moduli space of relative quasimaps to , which we use to define relative quasimap invariants. We obtain a recursion formula which expresses each relative invariant in terms of invariants of lower tangency, and apply this formula to derive a quantum Lefschetz theorem for quasimaps, expressing the restricted quasimap invariants of in terms of those of . Finally, we show that the relative -function of Fan-Tseng-You coincides with a natural generating function for relative quasimap invariants, providing mirror-symmetric motivation for the theory.
32 pages, 1 figure; comments welcome. v2: added a stronger version of the quantum Lefschetz theorem. v3: additional section exploring applications to relative mirror symmetry, new title and introduction. v4: final version published in IMRN