Cyclic Hodge integrals and loop Schur functions (Q887339)

For a Calabi-Yau 3-orbifold \(X\) with transverse \(A_n\) singularities, this paper investigates the relationship between its Gromov-Witten theory (which studies intersection numbers on the moduli stack of orbifold stable maps to \(X\)) and its Donaldson-Thomas theory (which studies intersection numbers on the Hilbert scheme of substacks in \(X\)). The two generating functions of intersection numbers on both sides are supposed to coincide after an explicit change of variables. In the toric case, both the GW and DT generating functions can be decomposed into contributions defined locally at each torus fixed point, the so-called orbifold topological vertex, which reduces global phenomena to the local setting. This paper conjectures an evaluation of local contributions on GW side (three-partition cyclic Hodge integrals) in terms of local contributions on DT side (loop Schur functions), which are respectively indexed by triples of conjugacy classes and triples of irreducible representations of certain generalized symmetric groups. This formula would imply the orbifold GW/DT correspondence for toric Calabi-Yau threefolds with transverse \(A_n\) singularities. The authors prove the formula in the case where one of the partitions is empty, and thus establish the orbifold GW/DT correspondence for local toric surfaces with transverse \(A_n\) singularities. An alternative approach to the orbifold GW/DT correspondence is to reduce it to the smooth toric case where the GW/DT correspondence was proved by Maulik, Oblomkov, Okounkov and Pandharipande [\textit{D. Maulik} et al., Invent. Math. 186, No. 2, 435--479 (2011; Zbl 1232.14039)]. The authors intend to study this approach in future work by utilizing the open crepant resolution correspondence.