Quantum Lefschetz Without Curves

Abstract

Abstract Given one quasi-smooth derived space cut out of another by a section of a 2-term complex of bundles, we give two formulae for its virtual cycle. They are modelled on the the $p$-fields construction of Chang–Li and the Quantum Lefschetz principle, and recover these when applied to moduli spaces of (stable or quasi-) maps. When the complex is a single bundle we recover the results of Kim–Kresch–Pantev.