The local Gromov-Witten theory of CP^1 and integrable hierarchies

DOI10.1007/S00220-012-1517-9MaRDI QIDQ444074zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Andrea Brini

Publication date 13 August 2012

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1002.0582

zbMATH Keywords

Ablowitz-Ladik integrable hierarchyGromov-Witten theory of local curves

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Mirror symmetry (algebro-geometric aspects) (14J33) Gromov-Witten invariants, quantum cohomology, Gopakumar-Vafa invariants, Donaldson-Thomas invariants (algebro-geometric aspects) (14N35) Completely integrable infinite-dimensional Hamiltonian and Lagrangian systems, integration methods, integrability tests, integrable hierarchies (KdV, KP, Toda, etc.) (37K10) Gromov-Witten invariants, quantum cohomology, Frobenius manifolds (53D45)

Abstract: In this paper we begin the study of the relationship between the local Gromov-Witten theory of Calabi-Yau rank two bundles over the projective line and the theory of integrable hierarchies. We first of all construct explicitly, in a large number of cases, the Hamiltonian dispersionless hierarchies that govern the full descendent genus zero theory. Our main tool is the application of Dubrovin's formalism, based on associativity equations, to the known results on the genus zero theory from local mirror symmetry and localization. The hierarchies we find are apparently new, with the exception of the resolved conifold O(-1) + O(-1) -> P1 in the equivariantly Calabi-Yau case. For this example the relevant dispersionless system turns out to be related to the long-wave limit of the Ablowitz-Ladik lattice. This identification provides us with a complete procedure to reconstruct the dispersive hierarchy which should conjecturally be related to the higher genus theory of the resolved conifold. We give a complete proof of this conjecture for genus g<=1; our methods are based on establishing, analogously to the case of KdV, a "quasi-triviality" property for the Ablowitz-Ladik hierarchy at the leading order of the dispersive expansion. We furthermore provide compelling evidence in favour of the resolved conifold/Ablowitz-Ladik correspondence at higher genus by testing it successfully in the primary sector for g=2.

Review text

The aim of this work is to identify as explicitly as possible an integrable hierarchy capturing the full equivariant Gromov-Witten theory of the ``local projective line (the total space of rank-two bundles \({\mathcal O}_{{\mathbb C} {\mathbb P}^1}(-k)\oplus{\mathcal O}_{{\mathbb C}{\mathbb P}^1}(k-2)\)). The existence of such a hierarchy is expected on formal grounds, by analogy with lower-dimensional Fano examples, as well as certain developments in topological strings over the past decade. The main novelty of the present contribution is the ambition to consider the full-fledged Gromov-Witten theory, including descendents, in the three-dimensional Calabi-Yau case. The calculations are informed mostly by the Dubrovin-Zhang formalism. The main results are the conjectureal identification of the hierarchy relevant for \(k=1\) (the resolved conifold) as the Ablowitz-Ladik lattice, and the verification of the conjecture up to genus 1 for the descendent theory, and up to genus 2 for the primary sector. The paper is readable with a working knowledge of basic definitions of Gromov-Witten theory, and an acquaintance with the Dubrovin formalism. The point of view of integrable PDEs is emphasized over the geometric aspects (which are mostly borrowed from the literature).

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