Higher-genus wall-crossing in the gauged linear sigma model (Q2037843)

The wall-crossing problems arised in the study of the higher genus Gromov-Witten invariants. To give an explanation of the B-model theory mirror to the complete intersection \(Y\) in projective space, \textit{I. Ciocan-Fontanine} et al. [J. Geom. Phys. 75, 17--47 (2014; Zbl 1282.14022)] introduced the quasimap theory, where the notion of stable maps to \(Y\) in Gromov-Witten theory was generalized via the additional datum of a positive rational number \(\epsilon\). The quasimap theory recovers Gromov-Witten theory when \(\epsilon \rightarrow \infty\), and is thought to correspond to the mirror B-model of \(Y\) when \(\epsilon \rightarrow 0\). They are conjectured to be related by the \(\epsilon\)-wall-crossing. The gauged linear sigma model (GLSM) is a further generalization of the Gromov-Witten theory. It is based on three pieces of input data: \begin{itemize} \item the GIT quotient : \(X_\theta= [V//_\theta G]\) \item the superpotential which is a polynomial function \(X_\theta \rightarrow \mathbb{C}\) \item the \(R\)-charge which is an action of \(\mathbb{C}^*\) on \(V\). \end{itemize} The GLSM recovers the quasimap theory in the ``geometric'' phase of the GIT quotient. It also recovers other interesting curve-counting theories in corresponding phases such as FJRW theory and hybrid model considered in the literatures. In this paper, the authors give a uniform proof of the higher-genus \(\epsilon\)-wall-crossing in the GLSM. The idea is to construct a larger moduli space (called twisted graph space) with a \(\mathbb{C}^*\)-action in which the theories at \(\epsilon=\infty\) and arbitrary \(\epsilon\) arise as fixed loci. The proof of the \(n\geq 1\) cases is finished by the following steps: \begin{itemize} \item The authors introduce a twisted version of the wall-crossing formula (Theorem 3.4) and they prove it implies the untwisted one (Theorem 3.1). \item The authors introduce a graph sum formula (Theorem 3.7) which implies the twisted wall-crossing formula. \item The graph sum formula can be proved by \(\mathbb{C}^*\)-localization on the twisted graph space. A key oberservation here is that the class in question changes by an irrational function of the equivariant parameter when an insertion is varied, and hence it vanishes. \end{itemize} The proof of the \(n=0\) case is finished in the appendix by Yang Zhou.