Topological strings and (almost) modular forms

DOI10.1007/S00220-007-0383-3zbMATH Open1165.81037arXivhep-th/0607100OpenAlexW2045581368MaRDI QIDQ1006853FDOQ1006853

Authors: Mina Aganagic, Vincent Bouchard, Albrecht Klemm 

Publication date: 26 March 2009

Published in: Communications in Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: The B-model topological string theory on a Calabi-Yau threefold X has a symmetry group Gamma, generated by monodromies of the periods of X. This acts on the topological string wave function in a natural way, governed by the quantum mechanics of the phase space H^3(X). We show that, depending on the choice of polarization, the genus g topological string amplitude is either a holomorphic quasi-modular form or an almost holomorphic modular form of weight 0 under Gamma. Moreover, at each genus, certain combinations of genus g amplitudes are both modular and holomorphic. We illustrate this for the local Calabi-Yau manifolds giving rise to Seiberg-Witten gauge theories in four dimensions and local P_2 and P_1 x P_1. As a byproduct, we also obtain a simple way of relating the topological string amplitudes near different points in the moduli space, which we use to give predictions for Gromov-Witten invariants of the orbifold C^3/Z_3.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0607100

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zbMATH Keywords

string theorymodular formsquantum geometry

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

String and superstring theories; other extended objects (e.g., branes) in quantum field theory (81T30) Topological field theories in quantum mechanics (81T45) Miscellaneous applications of number theory (11Z05) Period matrices, variation of Hodge structure; degenerations (32G20) Calabi-Yau theory (complex-analytic aspects) (32Q25) Relations with algebraic geometry and topology (11F23)

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