On the Convergence of Gromov-Witten Potentials and Givental's Formula

Let X be a smooth projective variety. The Gromov-Witten potentials of X are generating functions for the Gromov-Witten invariants of X: they are formal power series, sometimes in infinitely many variables, with Taylor coefficients given by Gromov-Witten invariants of X. It is natural to ask whether these formal power series converge. In this paper we describe and analyze various notions of convergence for Gromov-Witten potentials. Using results of Givental and Teleman, we show that if the quantum cohomology of X is analytic and generically semisimple then the genus-g Gromov-Witten potential of X converges for all g. We deduce convergence results for the all-genus Gromov-Witten potentials of compact toric varieties, complete flag varieties, and certain non-compact toric varieties.Comment: 38 pages, 1 figure, v2: corrected several error

Minimum Distances in Non-Trivial String Target Spaces

The idea of minimum distance, familiar from R 1/R duality when the string target space is a circle, is analyzed for less trivial geometries. The particular geometry studied is that of a blown-up quotient singularity within a Calabi-Yau space and mirror symmetry is used to perform the analysis. It is found that zero distances can appear but that in many cases this requires other distances within the same target space to be infinite. In other cases zero distances can occur without compensating infinite distances.Comment: 21 pages, IASSNS-HEP-94/1