Quantum Cohomology Lectures given at the C.I.M.E. Summer School held in Cetraro, Italy, June 30 - July 8, 1997 /

• Main Authors: Behrend, K. (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut), Gomez, C. (http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut), Tarasov, V. (http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut), Tian, G. (http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Bartolomeis, P.de (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Dubrovin, B. (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Reina, C. (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2002.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2002.
• Series: C.I.M.E. Foundation Subseries ; 1776
• Subjects: Geometry.; Matrix theory.; Algebra.; Linear and Multilinear Algebras, Matrix Theory.

The book gathers the lectures given at the C.I.M.E. summer school "Quantum Cohomology" held in Cetraro (Italy) from June 30th to July 8th, 1997. The lectures and the subsequent updating cover a large spectrum of the subject on the field, from the algebro-geometric point of view, to the sym...

Table of Contents:

• K. Behrend: Localization and Gromov-Witten Invariants
• C. Gómez: Field, Strings, and Branes
• V. Tarasov: q-Hypergeometric Functions and Representation
• G. Tian: Constructing Symplectic Invariants.