Vafa-Witten invariants for projective surfaces I: stable case

DOI10.1090/JAG/738zbMATH Open1460.53027arXiv1702.08487OpenAlexW2963881920WikidataQ127025954 ScholiaQ127025954MaRDI QIDQ5118879FDOQ5118879

Richard P. Thomas, Yuuji Tanaka

Publication date: 27 August 2020

Published in: Journal of Algebraic Geometry (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: On a polarised surface, solutions of the Vafa-Witten equations correspond to certain polystable Higgs pairs. When stability and semistability coincide, the moduli space admits a symmetric obstruction theory and a $mathbb{C}^{*}$ action with compact fixed locus. Applying virtual localisation we define invariants constant under deformations. When the vanishing theorem of Vafa-Witten holds, the result is the (signed) Euler characteristic of the moduli space of instantons. In general there are other, rational, contributions. Calculations of these on surfaces with positive canonical bundle recover the first terms of modular forms predicted by Vafa and Witten.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1702.08487

zbMATH Keywords

Euler characteristicmoduli spacesurfacesHiggs fieldpositive canonical bundledeformation theorynested Hilbert schemes\(\operatorname{SU}(r)\) Vafa-Witten invariantsstable torsion sheavessymmetric perfect obstruction theory

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of vector bundles and moduli spaces in mathematical physics (twistor theory, instantons, quantum field theory) (14D21) Gromov-Witten invariants, quantum cohomology, Gopakumar-Vafa invariants, Donaldson-Thomas invariants (algebro-geometric aspects) (14N35) Special connections and metrics on vector bundles (Hermite-Einstein, Yang-Mills) (53C07) Symplectic structures of moduli spaces (53D30)

Cites Work

• Title not available (Why is that?)
• Title not available (Why is that?)
• Title not available (Why is that?)
• Title not available (Why is that?)
• Title not available (Why is that?)
• Title not available (Why is that?)
• A strong coupling test of \(S\)-duality
• Deformation-obstruction theory for complexes via Atiyah and Kodaira-Spencer classes
• Localization of virtual classes
• Large \(N\) 2D Yang-Mills theory and topological string theory
• A holomorphic Casson invariant for Calabi-Yau 3-folds, and bundles on \(K3\) fibrations.
• A theory of generalized Donaldson-Thomas invariants
• Constructing Variations of Hodge Structure Using Yang-Mills Theory and Applications to Uniformization
• Cohomological Hall algebra, exponential Hodge structures and motivic Donaldson-Thomas invariants
• Moduli of objects in dg-categories
• Electric-magnetic duality and the geometric Langlands program
• The intrinsic normal cone
• Virtual moduli cycles and Gromov-Witten invariants of algebraic varieties
• Complexe cotangent et déformations. I. (The cotangent complex and deformations. I.)
• Instanton counting and Donaldson invariants
• Motivic degree zero Donaldson-Thomas invariants
• Derived algebraic geometry, determinants of perfect complexes, and applications to obstruction theories for maps and complexes
• Donaldson-Thomas type invariants via microlocal geometry
• A wall crossing formula of Donaldson-Thomas invariants without Chern-Simons functional
• Localizing virtual cycles by cosections
• Hitchin-Kobayashi correspondence, quivers, and vortices
• Balanced topological field theories
• Reduced classes and curve counting on surfaces I: theory
• Notes on supersymmetric and holomorphic field theories in dimensions 2 and 4
• Virtual signed Euler characteristics
• The Vafa-Witten theory for gauge group SU\((N)\)
• Fixed point loci of moduli spaces of sheaves on toric varieties
• Virtual fundamental classes for moduli spaces of sheaves on Calabi-Yau four-folds
• Vafa-Witten invariants for projective surfaces. II: Semistable case
• On the singular sets of solutions to the Kapustin-Witten equations and the Vafa-Witten ones on compact Kähler surfaces
• Stable sheaves with twisted sections and the Vafa-Witten equations on smooth projective surfaces
• The Critical CoHA of a Quiver With Potential
• Virtual refinements of the Vafa-Witten formula
• Nested Hilbert schemes on surfaces: virtual fundamental class
• Stable pairs with descendents on local surfaces. I: The vertical component
• Shifted cotangent stacks are shifted symplectic
• Localized Donaldson-Thomas theory of surfaces
• Degeneracy loci, virtual cycles and nested Hilbert schemes II
• Sheaf counting on local \(K3\) surfaces
• Note on MacPherson's local Euler obstruction

Cited In (23)

• Degeneracy loci, virtual cycles and nested Hilbert schemes II
• Rationality of descendent series for Hilbert and Quot schemes of surfaces
• Universal structures in \(\mathbb{C}\)-linear enumerative invariant theories
• On the first Vafa-Witten bound for two-dimensional tori
• Flags of sheaves, quivers and symmetric polynomials
• Higher rank flag sheaves on surfaces
• Virtual refinements of the Vafa-Witten formula
• Hilbert schemes of nonreduced divisors in Calabi-Yau threefolds and \(W\)-algebras
• A proof of N. Takahashi's conjecture for \(( \mathbb{P}^2, E)\) and a refined sheaves/Gromov-Witten correspondence
• On the Bogomolov-Gieseker inequality for tame Deligne-Mumford surfaces
• Vafa-Witten invariants from exceptional collections
• Vertical Vafa-Witten invariants
• Monopole contributions to refined Vafa-Witten invariants
• Motivic virtual signed Euler characteristics and their applications to Vafa-Witten invariants
• Atiyah class and sheaf counting on local Calabi Yau fourfolds
• Symmetric semi-perfect obstruction theory revisited
• On quasimap invariants of moduli spaces of Higgs bundles
• Transversality for the full rank part of Vafa-Witten moduli spaces
• Quot schemes of curves and surfaces: virtual classes, integrals, Euler characteristics
• Counting twisted sheaves and S-duality
• Twisted sheaves and \(\text{SU}(r) / {\mathbb{Z}}_r\) Vafa-Witten theory
• Verlinde formulae on complex surfaces: K-theoretic invariants
• Virtual χ−y‐genera of Quot schemes on surfaces

Uses Software

• MathOverflow

This page was built for publication: Vafa-Witten invariants for projective surfaces I: stable case

Report a bug (only for logged in users!)Click here to report a bug for this page (MaRDI item Q5118879)