Nekrasov's partition function and refined Donaldson-Thomas theory: the rank one case

DOI10.3842/SIGMA.2012.088zbMATH Open1284.14079OpenAlexW2128222775MaRDI QIDQ352402FDOQ352402

Authors Balázs Szendrői

Publication date 4 July 2013

Published in SIGMA. Symmetry, Integrability and Geometry: Methods and Applications (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1210.5181

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zbMATH Keywords

refinementstable pair invariantsDonaldson-Thomas theoryresolved conifold

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Gromov-Witten invariants, quantum cohomology, Gopakumar-Vafa invariants, Donaldson-Thomas invariants (algebro-geometric aspects) (14N35) Relationships between surfaces, higher-dimensional varieties, and physics (14J81)

Abstract: This paper studies geometric engineering, in the simplest possible case of rank one (Abelian) gauge theory on the affine plane and the resolved conifold. We recall the identification between Nekrasov's partition function and a version of refined Donaldson-Thomas theory, and study the relationship between the underlying vector spaces. Using a purity result, we identify the vector space underlying refined Donaldson-Thomas theory on the conifold geometry as the exterior space of the space of polynomial functions on the affine plane, with the (Lefschetz) SL(2)-action on the threefold side being dual to the geometric SL(2)-action on the affine plane. We suggest that the exterior space should be a module for the (explicitly not yet known) cohomological Hall algebra (algebra of BPS states) of the conifold.

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