Abstract
We generalize the cosection localized Gysin map to intersection homology and Borel–Moore homology, which provides us with a purely topological construction of the Fan–Jarvis–Ruan–Witten invariants and some GLSM invariants.
Funding source: National Science Foundation
Award Identifier / Grant number: DMS-1564500
Award Identifier / Grant number: DMS-1601211
Funding statement: Young-Hoon Kiem was partially supported by Samsung Science and Technology Foundation SSTF-BA1601-01; Jun Li was paritally supported by NSF grants DMS-1564500 and DMS-1601211.
Acknowledgements
We thank Huai-Liang Chang for extended discussions that provided impetus to developing the current theory. We also thank Jinwon Choi, Wei-Ping Li and Yongbin Ruan for useful discussions.
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