A descendent tropical Landau-Ginzburg potential for \(\mathbb{P}^2\) (Q2396629)

The role of Mirror Symmetry in enumerative geometry was a triumph of string theory dating to 1991 [\textit{P. Candelas} et al., Nucl. Phys., B 359, No. 1, 21--74 (1991; Zbl 1098.32506)], leading to the theory of Gromow-Witten [GW] invariants. This has been formalized over the years as mathematical conjectures, notably Kontsevich's homological mirror symmetry and the torus-fibration structure of SYZ [\textit{A. Strominger} et al., ibid. 479, No. 1--2, 243--259 (1996; Zbl 0896.14024)]. In particular, SYZ suggest the importance of a middle-dimensional \textit{real} manifold described by tropical geometry. The Gross-Siebert programme followed this idea very successfully and a major step was by Mikhalkin who computed general GW invariants on $\mathbb{P}^2$ to that of the associated tropical curves. \par In general, by the works of \textit{A. Givental} [Prog. Math. 160, 141--175 (1998; Zbl 0936.14031); in: Proceedings of the international congress of mathematicians, ICM 1994. Basel: Birkhäuser. 472--480 (1995; Zbl 0863.14021)], the mirror of a toric Fano manifold $X$ is a Landau-Ginzburg model $\hat{X}$ consisting of a manifold as well as a potential $W$ which is map $W : \hat{X} \to \mathbb{C}$. For example, the mirror to $\mathbb{P}^2$ is given by the hypersurface $x_0x_1x_2=1$ in $\mathbb{C}[x_0,x_1,x_2]$ together with $W = x_0 + x_1 + x_2$. The purpose of the current paper is to nicely follow the direction of Gross and establish a family of Landau-Ginzburg potentials for $\mathbb{P}^2$. Oscillatory integrals of this family compute an enhancement of Givental's J-function, encoding many descendent Gromov-Witten invariants. This construction can be seen as yielding a canonical family of Landau-Ginzburg potentials on a refinement of a sector of the big phase space, and the resulting descendent J-function is the natural lift given by the constitutive equations of \textit{R. Dijkgraaf} and \textit{E. Witten} [``Mean field theory, topological field theory, and multi-matrix models'', Nucl. Phys. B 342, No. 3, 486--522 (1990; \url{doi:10.1016/0550-3213(90)90324-7})].