Computing motivic Donaldson-Thomas invariants

This thesis develops a method (dimensional reduction) to compute motivic Donaldson--Thomas invariants. The method is then employed to compute these invariants in several different cases. Given a moduli scheme with a symmetric obstruction theory a Donaldson--Thomas type invariant can be defined by i...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Morrison, Andrew James
Language:English
Published: University of British Columbia 2012
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/2429/41935