The orientability problem in open Gromov–Witten theory

Georgieva, Penka¹

¹ Department of Mathematics, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544, USA

Geometry & topology, Tome 17 (2013) no. 4, pp. 2485-2512.

Résumé

We give an explicit formula for the holonomy of the orientation bundle of a family of real Cauchy–Riemann operators. A special case of this formula resolves the orientability question for spaces of maps from Riemann surfaces with Lagrangian boundary condition. As a corollary, we show that the local system of orientations on the moduli space of $J$–holomorphic maps from a bordered Riemann surface to a symplectic manifold is isomorphic to the pullback of a local system defined on the product of the Lagrangian and its free loop space. As another corollary, we show that certain natural bundles over these moduli spaces have the same local systems of orientations as the moduli spaces themselves (this is a prerequisite for integrating the Euler classes of these bundles). We will apply these conclusions in future papers to construct and compute open Gromov–Witten invariants in a number of settings.

Détail

DOI : 10.2140/gt.2013.17.2485

Classification : 53D45, 57R17, 14N35
Keywords: orientability, moduli spaces, open Gromov–Witten theory

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