Gromov--Witten Theory of CP^1 and Integrable Hierarchies
Abstract
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The ancestor Gromov--Witten invariants of a compact {\Kahler} manifold $X$ can be organized in a generating function called the total ancestor potential of $X$. In this paper, we construct Hirota Quadratic Equations (HQE shortly) for the total ancestor potential of $\C P^1$. The idea is to adopt the formalism developed in \cite{G1,GM} to the mirror model of $\C P^1$. We hope that the ideas presented here can be generalized to other manifolds as well.
As a corollary, using the twisted loop group formalism from \cite{G3}, we obtain a new proof of the following version of the Toda conjecture: the total descendant potential of $\C P^1$ (known also as the partition function of the $\C P^1$ topological sigma model) is a tau-function of the Extended Toda Hierarchy.
22 pages, this is the second part of an earlier version, major revision of the exposition
22 pages, this is the second part of an earlier version, major revision of the exposition