Representations of cohomological Hall algebras and Donaldson-Thomas theory with classical structure groups (Q2216215): Difference between revisions

Cohomological Hall algebras of quivers with potential were introduced by Kontsevich and Soibelman as tractable algebraic analogues of Donaldson-Thomas invariants of Calabi-Yau threefolds, and as a mathematical model of ``BPS algebras'' studied in theoretical physics by Harvey and Moore. In this context, representations of cohomological Hall algebras are expected to correspond to ``open'' BPS invariants in a purely algebraic setting. The present paper studies a class of representations of cohomological Hall algebras attached to quivers with involution and equivariant potential. In the geometric incarnation, this corresponds to an extension of Donaldson-Thomas theory from structure group \(GL(n,\mathbb C)\) to the other classical groups. This is expected to model ``orientifold'' BPS invariants. The main result of the paper is an extension of the integrality results of Kontevich-Soibelman and Reineke to this equivariant setting. The paper fits into the author's larger program on the mathematical underpinnings and repercussions of the orientifold construction.