A new approach to the operator formalism for Gromov-Witten invariants of the cap and tube

Ajith Urundolil Kumaran, Longting Wu

Based on Johnson's operator formula for the equivariant Gromov-Witten theory of ${\mathbb{P}}^1$-orbifolds, we give a new approach to the operator formalism by Okounkov and Pandharip…