Difference equation for quintic 3-fold (Q2155669)

Calabi-Yau manifolds are essential in mirror symmetry. Among them, the quintic threefold was the first example for which mirror symmetry was used to make enumerative predictions. In Givental's approach to mirror symmetry, two cohomology valued formal functions play a crucial role, the so-called \(J\)-function and \(I\)-function. The \(J\)-function encodes all the genus zero Gromov-Witten invariants, but it is pretty hard to obtain an explicit formula. The \(I\)-function given by an oscillatory integral is computable. Givental proved that up to a change of coordinate, one can obtain the \(J\)-function from the \(I\)-function. In the present paper the author uses the Mellin-Barnes-Watson method to relate solutions of a certain type of \(q\)-difference equations at \(0\) and \(\infty\). He considers two special cases; the first is the \(q\)-difference equation of the \(K\)-theoretic \(I\)-function of the quintic, which is degree 25; he uses Adams' method to find the extra 20 solutions at \(0\). The second special case is a Fuchsian case, which is confluent to the differential equation of the cohomological \(I\)-function of the quintic. He computes the connection matrix and studies the confluence of the \(q\)-difference structure.