Deformations of chiral algebras and quantum cohomology of toric varieties

Abstract

We reproduce the quantum cohomology of toric varieties (and of some hypersurfaces in projective spaces) as the cohomology of certain vertex algebras with differential. The deformation technique allows us to compute the cohomology of the chiral de Rham complex over the projective space.Comment: we use the deformation technique from the earlier version of this note to compute the cohomology of the chiral de Rham complex over the projective space; the two new results, Theorems 2.5A and B, are explained in sect. 2.