Operators from mirror curves and the quantum dilogarithm

DOI10.1007/S00220-015-2499-1zbMATH Open1348.81436arXiv1501.01014OpenAlexW1887362312MaRDI QIDQ328489FDOQ328489

M. Mariño, R. M. Kashaev

Publication date: 20 October 2016

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

Abstract: Mirror manifolds to toric Calabi-Yau threefolds are encoded in algebraic curves. The quantization of these curves leads naturally to quantum-mechanical operators on the real line. We show that, for a large number of local del Pezzo Calabi-Yau threefolds, these operators are of trace class. In some simple geometries, like local P2, we calculate the integral kernel of the corresponding operators in terms of Faddeev's quantum dilogarithm. Their spectral traces are expressed in terms of multi-dimensional integrals, similar to the state-integrals appearing in three-manifold topology, and we show that they can be evaluated explicitly in some cases. Our results provide further verifications of a recent conjecture which gives an explicit expression for the Fredholm determinant of these operators, in terms of enumerative invariants of the underlying Calabi-Yau threefolds.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1501.01014

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Relationships between algebraic curves and physics (14H81) Calabi-Yau manifolds (algebro-geometric aspects) (14J32) Gromov-Witten invariants, quantum cohomology, Gopakumar-Vafa invariants, Donaldson-Thomas invariants (algebro-geometric aspects) (14N35) Selfadjoint operator theory in quantum theory, including spectral analysis (81Q10) Groups and algebras in quantum theory and relations with integrable systems (81R12) Commutation relations and statistics as related to quantum mechanics (general) (81S05) Supersymmetric field theories in quantum mechanics (81T60) Relationships between algebraic curves and integrable systems (14H70) Mirror symmetry (algebro-geometric aspects) (14J33) Quantization in field theory; cohomological methods (81T70) Polylogarithms and relations with (K)-theory (11G55) Calabi-Yau theory (complex-analytic aspects) (32Q25)

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