Wall-crossing, free fermions and crystal melting

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DOI10.1007/S00220-010-1153-1zbMATH Open1218.14028arXiv0910.5485OpenAlexW3105450496MaRDI QIDQ623348FDOQ623348


Authors: Piotr Sulkowski Edit this on Wikidata


Publication date: 14 February 2011

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

Abstract: We describe wall-crossing for local, toric Calabi-Yau manifolds without compact four-cycles, in terms of free fermions, vertex operators, and crystal melting. Firstly, to each such manifold we associate two states in the free fermion Hilbert space. The overlap of these states reproduces the BPS partition function corresponding to the non-commutative Donaldson-Thomas invariants, given by the modulus square of the topological string partition function. Secondly, we introduce the wall-crossing operators which represent crossing the walls of marginal stability associated to changes of the B-field through each two-cycle in the manifold. BPS partition functions in non-trivial chambers are given by the expectation values of these operators. Thirdly, we discuss crystal interpretation of such correlators for this whole class of manifolds. We describe evolution of these crystals upon a change of the moduli, and find crystal interpretation of the flop transition and the DT/PT transition. The crystals which we find generalize and unify various other Calabi-Yau crystal models which appeared in literature in recent years.


Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0910.5485




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